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1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 tn A « ð
Acute Tonsillitis .. 6713 6417 5528 5175 4781 5506 5608 4793 6588 5936 10
Acute Itespiratory Catarrh 16476 14320 16938 15982 20248 21777 14086 18459 16158 18812 32
Diphtheria 8 - 4 4 9 11 63 1 1 3 9
Dysentery (Para- dysentery) 48 12 618 2941 135 338 9 49 332 20 8
Puerperal Sepsis .. 9 9 7 8 13 14 15 9 9 12 21
Acute Kheumatism . 97 105 79 75 85 117 95 83 44 42 9
Enteric Fever 20 3 6 3 4 5 - 4 1 1 3
Acute Intestinal Catarrh 1635 1961 2990 5266 2395 4657 2753 3122 4937 3442 54
Influenza 21977 1301 5326 157 9670 625 12969 1949 863 5378 203
Measles 163 1 1 14 - 1 6616 540 3 23 23
Mumps 1 1 - 1 197 5034 601 13 - 4 1
Bronchopneumonia 670 417 686 377 1186 1427 808 846 840 888 |916
Lobar Pneumonia . 233 220 289 191 517 550 346 307 352 343
German Measles .. 32 55 8 781 1566 29 94 34 12 16 -
Scarlet Fever 288 197 64 33 158 321 456 261 65 22 5
Whooping Cough . - - - - 290 4413 39 7 129 1556 66
Encephalitis lethargica 15 2 5 3 2 3 _ _ 2 _ 10
Erysipelas 72 62 65 56 96 69 46 33 28 39 10
Erjdhema nodosum 10 12 13 26 21 11 17 23 3 15 -
Herpes Zoster 64 62 63 70 59 58 51 65 57 56 -
Epidemic Catarrlial Jaundice 72 33 4 38 102 169 82 17 8 12 1
Contagious Impetigo 46 60 124 289 629 425 274 179 127 136 -
Epidemic Cerebro- spinal Meningitis _ _ 1 14 46 19 5 13 13 9 11
FZpidemic Pleurisy . 9 20 8 21 15 76 20 43 318 230 -
Acute Poliomjxlitis 5 81 12 3 1 1 - 2 368 450 29
Epidemic Stomatitis 109 145 129 171 102 106 119 102 130 94 -
Chickenpox 292 385 292 245 133 337 516 328 299 374 —
Epidemics were of little consequence during the year and the
general state of the public health on the whoie fairly satisfactory.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1937—1946 are as
follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3):
1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
Gonorrhoea ......... 597 648 492 402 324 246 238 333 422 413
Syphilis ............. 8 6 14 67 83 142 84 74 47 43
Soft Chancre .... „ „ „ 2 3 3 2 „ 2 1
6. Tuberciilosis (all forms). Patients registered by the medical offi-
cers at the end of each year (cf. tables V, VI, VIIL , IX and XI)
1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
Pulmonary 998 967 851 867 854 853 799 748 746 782
Non-Pulmonary .. 526 511 236 239 259 282 250 231 210 257
Total Number of Notified Cases 1524 1478 1087 1106 1113 1135 1049 979 956 1039
Deaths 155 106 94 104 120 104 106 96 88 89