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1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 3 rt V Q
Acute Tonsillitis .. 5528 5175 4781 5506 5608 4793 6588 5936 5273 4689 ii
Acute Respiratorj' Catarrh 16938 15982 20248 21777 14086 18459 16158 18812 20707 17962 35
Diphtheria 4 4 9 11 63 1 1 3 2 - 9
Dysentery (Para- dysentery) 618 2941 135 338 9 49 332 20 85 3 8
Puerperal Sepsis . . 7 8 13 14 15 9 9 12 13 5 16
Acute Rheumatism . 79 75 85 117 95 83 44 42 40 28 9
Enteric Fever 6 3 4 5 - 4 1 1 2 - 1
Acute Intestinal Catarrh 2990 5266 2395 4657 2753 3122 4937 3442 3587 3445 55
Influenza 5326 157 9670 625 12969 1949 863 5378 6997 583 127
Measles 1 14 - 1 6616 540 3 23 4396 377 24
Mumps - 1 197 5034 601 13 - 4 19 397 1
Bronchopneumonia 686 377 1186 1427 808 846 840 888 1296 724 j-798
Lobar Pneumonia . 289 191 517 550 346 307 352 343 269 184
German Measles .. 8 781 1566 29 94 34 12 16 357 157 -
Scarlet Fever 64 33 158 321 456 261 65 22 13 193 5
Whoopinc Coucli . - - 290 4413 39 7 129 1556 15 - 66
Encephalitis lethargica 5 3 2 3 2 7 1 10
Erysipelas 65 56 96 69 46 33 28 39 24 31 6
Erythema nodosum 13 26 21 11 17 23 3 15 15 3 -
Herpes Zoster 63 70 59 58 51 65 57 56 73 65 -
Epidemic Catarrhal Jaundice 4 38 102 169 82 17 8 12 3 1 2
Contagious Impetico 124 289 629 425 274 179 127 136 90 68 -
Epidemic Cerebro- spinal Meningitis 1 14 46 19 5 13 13 9 3 3 12
Epidemic Pleurisy . 8 21 15 76 20 43 318 230 23 38 -
Acute Poliomyelitis 12 3 1 1 - 2 368 450 227 538 31
Epidemic Stomatitis 129 171 102 106 119 102 130 94 67 82 -
Chickenpox 292 245 133 337 516 328 299 374 351 492
The most notable epidemic of the year was an epidemic of a
poliomyelitis-like disease raging chiefly in Akureyri (on the northern
coast of Iceland) and neighbouring districts (cf. the American Journal
°f Hygiene, 1950, Vol. 52, pp. 222—238: A Disease Epidemic in lce-
land Simulating Poliomijelitis). Else epidemics were of little conse-
cinence during the year, and the general state of the public health
Was on the whole fairly satisfactory.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1939—1948 are as
follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3):
1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
Gonorrhoea ......... 492 402 324 246 238 333 422 413 535 543
Syphilis ............ 14 67 83 142 84 74 47 43 80 61
b°ft Chancre .... „ 2 3 3 2 „ 2 1 3
6. Tnberculosis (all forms). Patients registered by the medical offi-
cers at the end of each year (cf. tables V, VI, VIII, IX and XI):