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Appendix 31
(Chapter 7: Health)
Infectious Diseases Notified
Cases and Deaths, 1966-1970
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
Cholera...
1
9
Amoebic
Dysentery
220
24
154
21
117
12
85
7
68
Bacillary
Dysentery
Cerebro-spinal
766* 10* 829*
7* 869*
6*
736
5
609
7
Meningitis
10
7
55
16
32
14
23
4
10
4
Chickenpox
600
4
1,257
10
900
1
445
959
2
Diphtheria
307
27
226
18
113
10
62
10
43
Enteric Fever
(Typhoid &
Para-typhoid)
686
7
728
11
552
8
546
7
438 5
Leprosy..
160
2
148
4
164
127
135
Malaria..
127
65
2
19
11
3
1+
Measles ...
2,360 384
4,726
654 1,138
46
994
21
1,011
13
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum... 203
191
203
76
84
Poliomyelitis
32
1
5
3
15
2
16
3
27
3
Puerperal Fever
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
Scarlet Fever
37
64
8
1
4
3 1
!
Tuberculosis
11,427 1,515 15,253 1,493
9,792 1,483 11,072 1,470 10,077 1,436
Typhus (Mite-
borne)
2
―
Whooping Cough
108
40
88
3
5
Total... 17,048 1,983 23,742 2,240 14,011 1,583 14,210 1,528 13,473 1,481
*Influenza
1,220 30 4,923
25 8,493
45 3,232
14 5,814 16
Remarks: * Including unspecified dysentery.
↑ Case reported in 1969.
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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