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The following table shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in
1921—1929, as also the aggretgate number of deaths froni each
disease:1)
1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Deaths
Acute Tonsillitis 1671 2552 1855 1499 1928 2119 1640 2456 5249
Acute Respiratory Catarrh 4393 4162 4460 3930 4921 4799 5274 6342 6720 38
Diptberia 400 246 165 142 56 71 26 17 6 82
Dysentery (Paradysentery) . 8 2 7 24 2 15 15 323 65
Puerperal Sepsis 13 23 21 12 7 13 10 13 18 31
Acute Rheumatism 115 174 147 130 120 146 133 88 214 4
Enteric Fever 180 68 152 96 83 175 27 49 28 63
Acute Intestinal Catarrh . . 1049 1244 1024 981 1047 1303 2158 2370 2515 17
Influenza 5822 2504 1345 4992 941 3114 1993 5090 7110 223
Measles „ 1 „ 3802 1643 685 1 2293 3026 49
Mumps 7(i 24 „ ,, 1 ,, 1 ,, 998 „
Bronchopneunionia 1061 1033 1009 1012 804 925 1262 875 7951
Lobar Pneumonia 1024 589 609 561 278 185 218 183 241 (
German Measles 11 5 4 132 449 52 18 2Í)
Scarlet Fever 303 232 163 26 7 10 5 14 10 13
Whooping Cough 137 ,, „ ,, 4 91 6645 258 3 169
Encephalitis Lethargica . . . 3 ,, „ 2 16 „ 17? 3 7 8?
Erysipelas 127 197 140 83 96 102 93 112 43 21
Epidemic Catarrhai Jaundice 37 10« 104 37 30 11 33 9 240
Contagious Impetigo 18 58 39 63 77 159 98 137 93 „
Epidemie Pleurisy 17 ,,
Acute Poliomvelitis 2 2 463 26 2 12 4 8 97?
Chickenpox 109 157 132 163 153 156 143 198 157
There were sporadic outhreaks of epidemic cntarrhnl jaundice. 'l'his
disease was mainly felt in the schools, especially boarding-schools.
With regard to the period of incubation a district physician gives the
following example. A bojr in a boarding-school spent his Christmas holi-
days at home, where there was epidemic catarrhal jaundice. 19 days
after he left his home he was taken ill, and 5 days later the jaundice
symptoms were unmistakeable.
5. Venereal diseases. Notified cases of venereal diseases in the years
1921—1929 are as follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII 1—3) :
1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
(ionorrhoea .................. 192 198 259 241 258 340 348 407 431
Syphilis ...................... 30 23 22 20 31 32 34 21 13
Soft Chancre .................. 7 17 9 1 8 5 5 3 12
These figures include foreigners, who are by no means a small por-
tion of the total number. As yet this disease is mostly limited to the
largest towns, especially Reykjavik. This year the number of cases in
Reykjavik is as follows: Gonorrhoea: 308, Syphilis: 10, Soft Chancre: 6.
0. Tuberculosis (all forms). In Iceland all other diseases pale before
tuberculosis, in spite of energetic efforts on part of the authorities to
check this disease, efforts which, however, only consist in segregating
*) It has not been found necessary to calculate out the ratio, as also tliis is most-
ly omitted in the following pages. Each figure corresponds roughly to 100000 inhabi-
tants, this being the proximate population,