APPENDICES
Appendix VII — Contd
(Chapter 9: Health)
Infectious Diseases Notified
Cases and Deaths 1958-1962
435
1958
Diseases
1959
1960
1961
1962
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
Cholera
130
15
11
1
Amoebic
dysentery
262
12
239
18
334
9
215
12
195
9
Bacillary
dysentery
(including
unspecified
dysentery)
424
25
25
663
26
678
10
742
8 795
13
Cerebro-spinal
meningitis
28
17
25
17
30
21
36
26
50
35
Chickenpox
278
3
278
3
304
1
498
7
707
5
Diphtheria
1,555 134
2,087
116
1,450
95
1,334
109
1,022
102
Enteric fever
(Typhoid and
Para-typhoid)
816
34
997
32
773
30
742
24
826
21
Malaria
659
1
442
1
833
812
1
794
Measles
786
191
743 176
710
192
1,727
435 2,317
326
*Ophthalmia
neonatorum
105
244
|
254
250
310
Poliomyelitis ..
262
41
86 20
148
23
184
39
363
52
Puerperal fever
1
1
2
2
2
2
Scarlet fever..
10
24
17
1
29
19
Tuberculosis.. 13,485 2,302 14,302 2,178 12,425 2,085
12,584 1,907 14,263 1,881
Typhus (mite-
borne)
1
1
1
Whooping-
cough
197
2
110
2
48
47
1
98
Total
18,872 2,762 20,241 2,589 18,005 2,467
19,333 2,586
21,773 2,447
*Influenza
33,700 39 11,659
25 5,727
26 6,223
39
878
2
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.
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