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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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