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Appendix XXXI
(Chapter 7: Health)
Infectious Diseases Notified
Cases and Deaths 1963-1967
1963
1964
1965
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
1966
1967
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
Cholera
115
4
34
4
1
Amoebic
dysentery
241
12
209
21
173
16
220
24
154
21
Bacillary
dysentery
(including
unspecified
dysentery)
802
3
680
8
537
4
766
10
829
7
Cerebro-spinal
meningitis
50
24
38
19
19
9
10
7
55
16
Chickenpox
1,199
3
718
1
1,552
600
4
1,257
10
Diphtheria
871
86
699
38
581
37
307
27
-226
18
Enteric fever
(typhoid and
para-typhoid)
1,038
28
882
20
658
14
686
7
728
11
*Leprosy
102
160
2
148
4
Malaria
377
1
180
1
143
1
127
S
65
2
Measles
3,416 405
1,218
73
5,459
217
2,360
384 4,726
654
Ophthalmia
neonatorum
240
232
215
203
191
Poliomyelitis ...
53
37
3
140
17
32
1
5
3
Puerperal fever
2
1
1
1
3
2
2
1
1
Scarlet fever
18
1
12
12
37
64
Tuberculosis
***
13,031 1,762 12,557 1,441
9,927 1,278 11,427 1,515 15,253 1,493
Typhus (mite-
borne)
1
—
2
Whooping
cough
61
106
339
108
40
Total... 21,515 2,334 17,603 1,630 19,862 1,595 17,048 1,983 23,742 2,240
4,433 22 2,473 16
896
21 1,220 30 4,923 25
*Influenza
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.
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