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APPENDICES

Appendix VII — Contd

(Chapter 9: Health)

Infectious Diseases Notified

Cases and Deaths 1957-1961

429

1957

1958

1959

1960

1961

Diseases

Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths

Cholera

130

15

Amoebic

dysentery

217

8

262

12

239

18

334

215

12

Bacillary

j

dysentery

(Including

unspecified

dysentery)

550

9

424

25

663

26

678

10

742

8

Cerebro-spinal

meningitis ..

21

9

28

17

25

17

30

21

36

26

Chickenpox

280

2

278

3

278

3

304

1

498

7

Diphtheria

1,239

129

1,555

134

2.087

116

1,450

95

1,334

109

Enteric fever

(Typhoid and

Para-typhoid)

728

33

816

34

997

32

773

30

742

24

Malaria

447

659

1

442

1

883

8121

Measles

875

93

786

191

743

176

710 192

1,727

435.

*Ophthalmia

neonatorum

105

244

|

254

250

Poliomyelitis..

45

7

262

41

86

20

148

223

184

39

Puerperal fever

2

1

1

2

2

Scarlet fever..

5

10

24

17

1

29

·

Tuberculosis 13,665 2,675 13,485 2,302

14,302 2,178

12,425 2,085 12,584 1,907

Typhus (mite-

borne)

1

1

Whooping-

cough

96

197

2

110

48

47

1

Total

18,170 2,965

18,872 2,762 20,241 2,589 18,005 2,467

19,333 2,586

†Influenza

No record

53 33,700

39

11,659

25 5,727

26

6,223

39

Remarks: * Notifiable since June 1958.

† Voluntary notifications.

The above table omits rabies, smallpox, plague, epidemic louse-borne typhus, yellow fever and relapsing fever-no case of any of which was reported during the years.