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Appendix XXXI
(Chapter 7: Health)
Infectious Diseases Notified
Cases and Deaths 1961-1965
1961
1962
1963
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
1964
1965
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
Cholera
130
15
11
1
115
4
34
4
Amoebic
dysentery
215
12
195
9
241
12
209
21
173
16
Bacillary
dysentery
(including
unspecified
dysentery)
742
795
13
802
3
680
8
537
4
Cerebro-spinal
meningitis
36
26
50
35
50
24
38
19
19
9
Chickenpox
498
7
707
5
1,199
3
718
1 --1,552
Diphtheria
1,334
109
1,022
102
871
86
699
38
581
37
Enteric fever
(typhoid and
para-typhoid)
742
24
826
21
1,038
28
882
20
658
14
*Leprosy
102
Malaria
812
1 794
377
1
180
1
143
Measles
1,727
435
2,317
326
3,416
405
1,218
73
5,459
217
Ophthalmia
neonatorum
250
310
240
232
215
Poliomyelitis
184
39
363
52
53
37
3
140
17
Puerperal fever
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
3
2
Scarlet fever
29
19
18
1
12
12
Tuberculosis
-
12,584 1,907 14,263 1,881 13,031 1,762 12,557 1,441
9,927 1,278
Typhus (mite-
borne)
Whooping cough
Total ...
1
1
47
1
98
P
61
106
2
339
19,333 2,586 21,773 2,447 21,515 2,334 17,603 1,630 19,862 1,595
†Influenza
6,223
39 6,374 39 4,433 22 2,473 16
Remarks: * Notifiable since June 1965.
896
21
* 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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