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1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1916 1947 w A «3 O Q
Acute Tonsillitis .. 6417 5528 5175 4781 5506 5608 4793 6588 5936 5273 ii
Acute Respiratory Catarrh 14320 16938 15982 20248 21777 14086 18459 16158 18812 20707 34
Diphtheria - 4 4 9 11 63 1 1 3 2 8
Dysentery (Para- dj'sentery) 12 618 2941 135 338 9 49 332 20 85 8
Puerperal Sepsis .. 9 7 8 13 14 15 9 9 12 13 19
Acute Rheumatism . 105 79 75 85 117 95 83 44 42 40 9
Enteric Fever 3 6 3 4 5 - 4 1 1 2 1
Acute Intestinal Catarrh 1961 2990 5266 2395 4657 2753 3122 4937 3442 3587 57
Influenza 1301 5326 157 9670 625 12969 1949 863 5378 6997 126
Measles 1 1 14 - 1 6616 540 3 23 4396 23
Mumps 1 - 1 197 5034 601 13 - 4 19 1
Bronchopneumonia 417 686 377 1186 1427 808 846 840 888 1296 }s57
Lobar Pneumonia . 220 289 191 517 550 346 307 352 343 269
German Measles . . 55 8 781 1566 29 94 34 12 16 357 -
Scarlet Fever 197 64 33 158 321 456 261 65 22 13 5
Whooping Cough . - - - 290 4413 39 7 129 1556 15 66
Encephalitis lethargica 2 5 3 2 3 _ _ 2 _ 7 9
Erysipelas 62 65 56 96 69 46 33 28 39 24 8
Erythema nodosum 12 13 26 21 11 17 23 3 15 15 -
Herpes Zoster 62 63 70 59 58 51 65 57 56 73 -
Epidemic Catarrhal Jaundice 33 4 38 102 169 82 17 8 12 3 1
Contagious Impetigo 60 124 289 629 425 274 179 127 136 90 -
Epidemic Cerebro- spinal Meningitis _ 1 14 46 19 5 13 13 9 3 11
Epidemic Pleurisy . 20 8 21 15 76 20 43 318 230 23 -
Acute Poliomyelitis 81 12 3 1 1 - 2 368 450 227 32
Epidemic Stomatitis 145 129 171 102 106 119 102 130 94 67 -
Chickenpox 385 292 245 133 337 516 328 299 374 351 -
Notable epideniics of the year were influenza and measles, and then
a continuation of last years epidemic of poliomyelitis or in some in-
stances perhaps a hitherto unknown variety of that disease.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1938—1947 are as
follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3):
1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
Gonorrhoea ......... 648 492 402 324 246 238 333 422 413 535
Syphilis ............. 6 14 67 83 142 84 74 47 43 80
Soft Chancre .... „ „ 2 3 3 2 „ 2 1 3
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):
1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
Pulmonary 967 851 867 854 853 799 748 746 782 829
Non-Pulmonary 511 236 239 259 282 250 231 210 257 287
Total Number of Notified Cases 1478 1087 1106 1113 1135 1049 979 956 1039 1116
Deaths 106 94 104 120 104 106 96 88 89 71