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Appendix 33
(Chapter 7: Health)
Infectious Diseases Notified
Cases and Deaths, 1967 - 1971
Cholera...
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
9
Amoebic
Dysentery
154
21 117
12
85
7
68
4
66
4
Bacillary
Dysentery
829*
7* 869*
6*
736
609
7
543
3
Cerebro-spinal
Meningitis
55
16
32
14
23
10
4
5
1
Chickenpox
1,257
10
900
1
445
959
2
443
Diphtheria
226
18
113
10
62
10
43
4
25
2
Enteric Fever
(Typhoid &
Para-typhoid)
728
11
552
8
546
7
438
5
515
6
Leprosy...
148
4
164
127
135
117
Malaria ...
65
2
19
11
3
1†
-9
Measles ...
4,726
654 1,138
46
994
21
1,011
13
591
4
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum...
191
203
76
84
56
Poliomyelitis
5
3
15
2
16
3
27
3
2
Puerperal Fever
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
-
Scarlet Fever
64
I 1
4
3
1
5
Tuberculosis
15,253
1,493 9,792
1,483 11,072 1,470 10,077 1,436 9,028 1,250
Typhus (Mite-
borne)
2
Whooping
Cough
40
88
3
5
2
Total... 23,742 2,240 14,011 1,583 14,210
1,528 13,473
1,481 11,410 1,271
Influenza
4,923
25 8,493 45 3,232
14 5,814
16 7,397 34
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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