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1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942Deaths
Acute Tonsillitis . 3909 4090 6036 4175 6713 6417 5528 5175 4781 5506 5
Acute Respiratoi'y Catan-h 9112 9716 9829 10968 16476 14320 16938 15982 20248 21777 24
Diphtheria 3 1 68 68 8 „ 4 4 9 11 12
Dysentery (Para- dysentery) 167 10 30 8 48 12 618 2941 135 338 12
Puerperal Sepsis . 9 3 6 6 9 9 7 8 13 14 24
Acute Rheumatism 128 147 160 91 97 105 79 75 85 117 9
Enteric Fever .... 11 19 24 9 20 3 6 3 4 5 6
Acute Intestinal Catarrh 3200 1585 1790 1740 1635 1961 2990 5266 2395 4657 40
Influenza 6578 670 11229 212 21977 1301 5326 157 9670 625 204
Measles „ „ 16 8245 163 1 i 14 1 60
Mumps 3 2 „ 16 1 1 „ 1 197 5034 1
Bronchopneunionia 461 530 905 548 670 417 686 377 1186 1427 |l098
Lohar Pneumonia 199 226 194 151 233 220 289 191 517 550
German Measles . . 9 3 9 9 32 55 8 781 1566 29 „
Scarlet Fever .... 426 900 109 70 288 197 64 33 158 321 34
Whooping Cough . „ „ 8267 88 „ „ „ 290 4413 172
Encephalitis lethargica 13 7 6 3 15 2 5 3 2 3 14
Erysipelas 37 65 122 59 72 62 65 56 96 69 19
Erythema nodosum 37 2*5 15 13 10 12 13 26 21 11 „
Herpes Zoster ... 19 20 72 47 64 62 63 70 59 58 „
Epidemic Catari'hal Jaundice ..:.... 62 21 6 43 72 33 4 38 102 169
Contagious Impetigo 102 70 43 63 46 60 124 289 629 425
Epidemic Cerebro- spinal Meningitis 1 2 1 1 14 46 19 10
Epidemic Pleurisy 10 28 30 17 9 20 8 21 15 76
Acute Poliomyelitis 3 7 300 53 5 81 12 3 1 1 41
Epidemic Stomatitis 181 218 140 171 109 145 129 171 102 106 „
Chickenpox 351 315 178 256 292 385 292 245 133 337 ”
Epidemics were even of an unusual consequence during the year.
Mumps and Whooping Cough ran through íhe whole country, and there
were local epidemics of Chickenpox. Epidemic Jaundice and Epidemic
Pleurisij. Number of deaths from Epidemic Cerebrospinai Meningitis
was higher than ever before, even if reported cases were fewer than
during' the last year. Extensive inoculation against Whooping Cough
brought doubtful results.
5. Venereal diseases. Notified c.ases of venereal diseases in Ihe years
1933—1942 are as follow (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3):
1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
Gonorrhoea ..........>, 482 576 665 632 597 648 492 402 324 246
Syphilis ............ 37 30 35 16 8 6 14 67 83 142
Soft Chancre ........ 7 2 2 1 „ „ „ 2 3 3
Of 5(5 Icelandie ínen with fresh syphilis 44 caught the disease abroad
and most of them in British seaports.
6. Tnberculosis (all forms). Patients registered by the inedical offi-
cers at the end of eacli year (cf. tables V, VI, VIII, IX and XI):