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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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