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Appendix XXXI

(Chapter 7: Health)

Infectious Diseases Notified

Cases and Deaths 1965-1969

Cholera

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths

1

Amoebic

dysentery

173

16

220

24

154

21

117

12

85

7

Bacillary

dysentery

(including

unspecified

dysentery)

537

4

766

10

829

7

869

6

736

5

Cerebro-spinal

meningitis

19

9

10

7

55

16

32

14

23

4

Chickenpox

+

1,552

600

4

1,257

10

900

1

445

Diphtheria

581

37

307

27

226

18

113

10

62

10

Enteric fever

(typhoid and

para-typhoid)

658

14

686

7

728

11

552

8

546

7

*Leprosy

102

160

2

148

164

127

Malaria

143

1

127

65

2

19

11

Measles

5,459 217 2,360

384

4,726

654

1,138

46

994

21

Ophthalmia

neonatorum

215

203

191

203

76

Poliomyelitis ...

140

17

32

1

5

3

15

2

16

3

Puerperal fever

3

2

2

2

1

1

1

1

1

12

371 !

Scarlet fever

9,927 1,278 11,427 1,515 15,253 1,493 9,792 1,483 11,072 1,470

64

1

4

Tuberculosis

Typhus (mite-

borne)

2

Whooping

cough

339

2

108

40

88

3

Total... 19,862 1,595 17,048 1,983 23,742 2,240 14,001 1,583 14,210 1,528

+Influenza

896

21 1,220

30 4,923

25 8,493 45 3,232

14

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,