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APPENDICES

Appendix VII-Contd

(Chapter 9: Health)

Infectious Diseases Notified

Cases and Deaths 1959-1963

1959

1960

1961

1962

1963

Diseases

Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths

Cholera

130

15

11

1

115

Amoebic

dysentery

239

18

334

9

215

12

195

9

241

12

Bacillary

dysentery

(including

unspecified

dysentery) ...

663

26

678

10

742

8 795

13

802

3

Cerebro-spinal

meningitis

25

17

30

21

36

26

50

35

50

24

Chickenpox

278

3

304

1

498

7

707

5

1,199

3

Diphtheria

2,087

116

1,450

95

1,334

109

1,022

102

871

86

Enteric fever

(typhoid and

paratyphoid)

997

32

773

30

742

24

826 21

1,038

28

Malaria

442

1

833

812

794

377

1

Measles

743

176

710

192

1,727

435

2,317

326

3,416

405

*Ophthalmic

neonatorum

244

254

250

310

240

Poliomyelitis

86

20

148

23

184

39

363

52

53

Puerperal fever

1

2

2

2

2

2

1

24

17

1

29

19

18

1

Scarlet fever

Tuberculosis

Typhus (mite-

borne)

14,302 2,170 12,425 2,085 12,584 1,907 14,263 1,881 13,031 1,762

1

1

1

Whooping

cough

110

2

48

47

1 98

61

Total... 20,241 2,589 18,005 2,467 19,333 2,586 21,773 2,447 21,515 2,334

*Influenza

11,659 25 5,727 26

6,223 39

878

2 4,433 22

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 year.

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