Heilbrigðisskýrslur - 01.12.1935, Page 214

4. Epidemic disenses. The incidence of epidemic. diseases is shown
in tables II, III and IV, 1—25.
The following table shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in
1926—1935 as also the aggregate number of deaths from each disease
during the same per iod.
lí)2(> 1927 1928 192!) 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 Deatlis
Acute Tonsillitis . Acute Respiratory 211!) 1640 2456 5249 5415 5151 4330 3909 4090 6036 1
Gatarrh 47!)!) 5274 6342 6720 10255 8549 9568 9112 9716 982!) 32
Diphtheria Dysentery (Para- 71 26 17 6 9 14 10 3 1 68 15
dysentery) .... 15 15 323 65 26 153 780 167 10 30 8
Puerperal Sepsis .. 13 10 13 18 14 15 í) 9 3 6 25
Acute Rheumatism 146 133 88 214 257 167 167 128 147 160 9
Enteric Fever .... Acute Intestinal 175 27 49 28 23 48 65 11 1!) 24 33
Catarrh 1303 2158 2370 2515 2037 3138 2523 3200 1585 1790 28
Influenza 3114 1993 5090 7110 1168 7362 1282 6578 670 11229 139
Measles 685 1 2293 3026 31 132 ,, 16 25
1 998 1858 325 788 4 3 2 530
Bronchopneunionia 925 1262 875 795 851 583 461 905 / 1156
Lobar Pneumonia 185 218 183 241 274 392 303 199 226 194 l
German Measles .. 44!) 52 18 29 102 368 24 9 3 !)
Scarlet Fever .... 10 5 14 10 204 336 624 426 900 109 56
Whooping Cough . Encephalitis !)1 6645 258 3 10 277 ” " ” 8267 285
lethargica ,, 17 3 7 8 14 14 13 7 6 10
Iirysipelas 102 93 112 43 34 31 43 37 65 122 13
Erythema nodosum ,, ,, „ 27 25 28 31 37 25 15
Epidemic Catarrhal
11 33 9 240 478 89 199 62 21 6
Contagious Impetigo 15!) 98 137 93 69 61 72 102 70 43
Epidemic Pleurisy 565 144 21 17 46 85 91 10 28 30 ,,
Acute Poliomyelitis 2 12 4 8 9 11 81 3 7 300 5!)
Epidemic Stomatitis 21 71 66 112 181 218 140 „
Chickenpox 156 143 198 157 101 184 201 351 315 178 ”
In contrast to the previous years epidemics were very frequent
during the year. Epidemic waves of influenza and whooping cougli
ran throug'h the country. There were sporadic outbreaks of diphtheria,
in some places very malignant ones, hut thev were successfully
checked, mainly as a result of extensive vaccination, which took place
at the instance of the Health Authorities. On the other hand a general
vaccination against whooping cough, which took place during the
wide-spread epidemic in this year, brought doubtful if any results. An
epidemic wave of poliomijelitis ran through a part of the country, the
inost serious outbreak since 1924. A district medical officer in an out-
of-the-way district in north-east Iceland has given a detailed account
of the incidence and symptoms of poliomvelitis in his district. The
article containing his account forms part III of this book. The fol-
lowing is an extract from this article:
The author is a medical oíficer in a sparsely populated district in North Ice-
land. In 1924 an epidemic wave of poliomvelitis ran through about %rd of the
district, and it is presumed that ahout 30 per cent. of the inhabitants of the in-