Appendix XXVIII
(Chapter 8: Health)
Infectious Diseases Notified
Cases and Deaths 1960 - 1964
315
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
130
15
11
1
115
4
34
Cholera
Amoebic
dysentery
334
9
215
12
195
9
241
12
209
21
...
Bacillary
dysentery
(including
unspecified
dysentery)
678
10
742
8 795
13
802
3
680
8
Cerebro-spinal |
meningitis
30
21
36
26
50
35
50
24
38
19
Chickenpox
304
1
498
7
707
5
1,199
3
718
1
Diphtheria
1,450
95
1,334
109
1,022
102
871
86
699
38
Enteric fever
(typhoid and
paratyphoid)
773
30
742
24
826
21
1,038
28
882
20
Malaria
833
812
1
794
377
1
180
1
Measles
710 192
1,727 435 2,317
326
3,416 405 1,218
73
*Ophthalmic
neonatorum
254
250
310
240
232
Poliomyelitis...
**148 23
184
39
363
52
53
37
3
Puerperal fever
1
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
17
1
29
19
18
1 12
Scarlet fever
Tuberculosis
Typhus (mite-
borne)
Whooping
12,425 2,085 12,584 1,907 14,263 1,881 13,031 1,762 12,557 1,441
1
cough
48
47
1
98
61
106
Total... 18,005 2,467 19,333 2,586 21,773 2,447 21,515 2,334 17,603 1,630
tInfluenza
5,727 26 6,223 39
6,374 39 4,433 22 2,473 16
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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