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Appendix XXXI

(Chapter 7: Health)

Infectious Diseases Notified

Cases and Deaths 1962 - 1966

1962

1963

Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths

1964

1965

Cases Deaths

1966 Cases Deaths

34

4

1

Cholera

11

1

115

...

Amoebic

dysentery

195

9

241

12

209

21

173

16

220

24

Bacillary

T

dysentery

(including

unspecified

dysentery)

795

13

802

نیا

3

680

8 537

4

766

10

Cerebro-spinal

meningitis

50

35

50

24

38

19

19

9

10

7

Chickenpox

707

5

1,199

3

718

1

1,552

600

4

Diphtheria

1,022

102

871

86

699

38

581

37

307

27

Enteric fever

(typhoid and

para-typhoid)

826

21 1,038

28

882

20

658

14

686

7

E

*Leprosy

102

160

2

Malaria

794

377

1

180

1

143

1

127

Measles

2,317

326

3,416

405 1,218

73

5,459

217 2,360

384

Ophthalmia

neonatorum

310

240

232

215

203

Poliomyelitis ...

363

52

53

4

37

3

140

17

32

1

Puerperal fever

2

2

1 [

ليا

3

2

2

2

Scarlet fever

19

18

12

12

37

Tuberculosis

Typhus (mite-

borne)

Whooping

cough

...

14,263 1,881 13,031 1,762 12,557 1,441

9,927 1,278 11,427 1,515

1

98

1

61

106

2

339

2

108

Total... 21,773 2,447 21,515 2,334 17,603 1,630 19,862 1,595 17,048 1,983

†Influenza

6,374 39 4,433 22 2,473 16

896

21 1,220 30

Remarks: * Notifiable since June 1965.

† 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.