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The following table shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in
1940—1949 as also the aggregate number of deaths from each disease
during the same period.
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 «5 £ rt V Q
Acute Tonsillitis .. 5175 4781 5506 5608 4793 6588 5936 5273 4689 6909 12
Acute Respiratory Catarrh 15982 20248 21777 14086 18459 16158 18812 20707 17962 20187 31
Diphtheria 4 9 11 63 1 1 3 2 - 1 9
Dysentery (Para- dysentery) 2941 135 338 9 49 332 20 85 3 5 6
Puerperal Sepsis .. 8 13 14 15 9 9 12 13 5 9 14
Acute Rheumatism . 75 85 117 95 83 44 42 40 28 26 9
Enteric Fever 3 4 5 - 4 1 1 2 - - -
Acute Intestinal Catarrh 5266 2395 4657 2753 3122 4937 3442 3587 3445 3983 55
Influenza 157 9670 625 12969 1949 863 5378 6997 583 9308 100
Measles 14 - 1 6616 540 3 23 4396 377 2 24
Mumps 1 197 5034 601 13 - 4 19 397 1411 1
Bronchopneumonia 377 1186 1427 808 846 840 888 1296 724 846 y741
Lobar Pneumonia . 191 517 550 346 307 352 343 269 184 143
German Measles .. 781 1566 29 94 34 12 16 357 157 54 -
Scarlet Fever 33 158 321 456 261 65 22 13 193 361 4
Whooping Cough . - 290 4413 39 7 129 1556 15 - 37 66
Epidemic Encephalitis .... 3 2 3 _ _ 2 _ 7 1 7 12
Erysipelas 56 96 69 46 33 28 39 24 31 22 6
Erythema nodosum 26 21 11 17 23 3 15 15 3 3 -
Herpes Zoster 70 59 58 51 65 57 56 73 65 65
Epidemic Catarrhal Jaundice 38 102 169 82 17 8 12 3 1 3 2
Contagious Impetigo 289 629 425 274 179 127 136 90 68 64
Epidemic Cerebro- spinal Meningitis 14 46 19 5 13 13 9 3 3 3 13
Infective Myositis . 21 15 76 20 43 318 230 23 38 12
Acute Poliomj'elitis 3 1 1 - 2 368 450 227 538 622 31
Epidemic Stomatitis 171 102 106 119 102 130 94 67 82 48 -
Chickenpox 245 133 337 516 328 299 374 351 492 435 ""
The chief epidemics of the year were influenza and mumps, both of
them wide-spread but else of no great consequence. The polio-mijelitis-
like disease raging chiefly in Akureyri and the neighbouring districts
the year before (since commonly called the Akureyri disease) kept
on running through the country during the first 3—4 months of the
year, and seems to have been most prevalent in the northern and
north-western districts, but the reporting of the epidemic is doubtless
very inaccurate, the disease obviously more or less frequent in some
districts without being registered. The scarlet fever curve having
been declining the last 3 years now began to rise again.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1940—1949 are as
follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3):