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1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 I)catlis|
Acute Tonsillilis .. 6036 4175 6713 6417 5528 5175 4781 5506 5608 4793 8
Acute Kespiratory Catarrh 9829 10968 16476 14320 16938 15982 20248 21777 14086 18459 29
Diphtheria 68 68 8 » 4 4 9 11 63 1 14
Dysentery (Para- dyscntery) 30 8 48 12 618 2941 135 338 9 49 9
Puerperal Sepsis .. 6 6 9 9 7 8 13 14 15 9 23
Acute Kheumatism . 160 91 97 105 79 75 85 117 95 83 8
Enteric Kever 24 9 20 3 6 3 4 5 » 4 4
Acute Intestinal Ca'arrh 1790 1740 1635 1961 2990 5266 2395 4657 2753 3122 43
Influenza 11229 212 21977 1301 5326 157 9670 625 12969 1949 224
Meastes 16 8245 163 1 1 14 » 1 6616 540 78
Mumps » 16 1 1 » 1 197 5034 601 13 1
Bronchopneumonia 905 548 670 417 686 377 1186 1427 808 846 ^994
Lobar Pneumonia . 194 151 233 220 289 191 517 550 346 3o7
German Measles .. 9 9 32 55 8 781 1566 29 94 34 »
Scarlet Fever 109 70 288 197 64 33 158 321 456 261 9
MUtooping Cough . 8267 88 » » » » 290 4413 39 7 177
Encephalitis letha'gica 6 3 15 2 5 3 2 3 » » 12
Erj'sipeias 122 59 72 62 65 56 96 69 46 33 18
Erythema nodosum 15 13 10 12 13 26 21 11 17 23 »
Herpes zo>ter 72 47 64 62 63 70 59 58 51 65 »
Epidemic Catarrhal Jaundice 6 43 72 33 4 38 102 169 82 17 »
Contagious Impetigo 43 63 46 60 124 289 629 425 274 179 »
Epidemic Cerebro- spinal Meningitis » 1 » » 1 14 46 19 5 13 11
Epidemic Pleurisy . 30 17 9 20 8 21 15 76 20 43 »
Acute Poliomyelitis 300 53 5 81 12 3 1 1 » 2 40
Epidemic Stomatitis 140 171 109 145 129 171 102 106 119 102 »
Chickenpox 178 256 292 385 292 245 133 337 516 328 »
With exception of some remnant of Inflnenza and Measles, the
prevalent epidemic of the foregoing year, epidemic were of little
consequence during 1944, and the state of public health can be deemed
having been even unusually satisfactory.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1935—1944 are as
íollows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3).
1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Gonorrhoea ......... 665 632 597 648 492 402 324 246 238 333
Syphilis ............ 35 16 8 6 14 67 83 142 84 74
Soft Chancre ......... 2 1 „ „ „ 2 3 3 2
There were 55 cases of fresh syphilis, 43 men and 12 women. With
exception of 5—6, the patients caught the disease abroad, most of
them sailors in British seaports.
6. Tuberculosis (all forms). Patients registered by the medical offi-
cers at the end of each year (cf. tables V, VI, VIII, IX and XI):