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Appendix XXXI

(Chapter 7: Health)

Infectious Diseases Notified

1964

Cases and Deaths 1964-1968

1965

1966

1967

1968

Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths

Cholera

34

1

Amoebic

dysentery

209

21

173

16

220

24

154

21

117

12

Bacillary

dysentery

(including

unspecified

dysentery)

680

537

4

766

10

829

7

869

6

Cerebro-spinal

meningitis

38

19

19

9

10

7

55

16

32

14

Chickenpox

718

1

1,552

600

4

1,257

10

900

1

Diphtheria

699

38

581

37

307

27

226

18

113

10

Enteric fever

(typhoid and

para-typhoid)

882

20

658

14

686

7

728

11 552

8

*Leprosy

102

160

2

148

164

Malaria

180

1

143

1

127

65

2

--19

Measles

1,218

73

5,459

217

2,360

384

4,726

654 1,138

46

Ophthalmia

neonatorum

Poliomyelitis ...

Puerperal fever

Scarlet fever

Tuberculosis

Typhus (mite-

borne)

232

215

203

191

203

37,

3

140

17

32

1

5

3

15

2

3

2

2

2

1

1

12

DOG

12,557 1,441

12

37

64

LUBBIS

8 1

9,927 1,278 11,427 1,515 15,253 1,493 9,792 1,483

2

2

Whooping

cough

106

339

108

40

88

17,603 1,630 19,862 1,595 17,048 1,983 23,742 2,240 14,011 1,583

Total... 17,603

*Influenza

2,473 16

896

21 1,220

30 4,923 25 8,493 45

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.