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1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Gonorrhoea .................... 402 324 246 238 333 422 413 535 543 375
Syphilis ...................... 67 83 142 84 74 47 43 80 61 54
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):
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Pulmonary 867 854 853 799 748 746 782 829 834 818
Non-pulmonary 239 259 282 250 231 210 257 287 172 172
Total Number of Notified Cases 1106 1113 1135 1049 979 956 1039 1116 1006 990
Deaths 104 120 104 106 96 88 89 71 47 36
Deaths from tuberculosis may be classified as follows (last year’s
figures in round brackets): Pulmonary tuberculosis 25 (33), universal
tuberculosis 1 (0), tuberculosis of bones and joints 2 (1), meningeal
tuberculosis 3 (11), abdominal tuberculosis 2 (1), tuberculosis of the
urinary and generative organs 3 (0), tuberculosis of the lymphatic
glands 0 (1).
During the last two decades death from tuberculosis in Iceland has
been almost steadily decreasing, yet, with a relative stand-still during
the war, and the last two years the fall of the tuberculosis death rate
is truly adventurous. In 1930 232 died from tuberculosis in Iceland
(2,2 per 1000 of the population), 1939: 94 (0,8 per 1000), 1945: 88
(0,7 per 1000), 1947: 71 (0,5 per 1000), 1948: 47 (0,3 per 1000), 1949:
36 (0,3 per 1000).
7. Leprosy. The number of patients has been almost constantly
decreasing in previous years (cf. tables V—VI).
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Patients in Leprosarium ...... 17 16 15 14 13 11 10 9 8 8
Patients outside Hospital .... 5 5 6 5 5 5 5 4 4 4
Total Number of Patients ... 22 21 21 19 18 16 15 13 12 12
8. Hydatid Disease (cf. tables V and VI).
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Number of Patients ....... 3 6 4 5 1 1 „ „ 2 5
Deaths....................... 2 6 8 3 5 2 2 1 1 1
These figures are based upon monthly reports from physicians, but
in the annual report on the disease, which comprises all medical
districts in this country, 25 cases are reported, most of them very old
people, perhaps only with some or other remains of the disease.
9. Scabies (cf. tables V, VI and VII,4).
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Number of Patients ....... 1531 1569 828 645 460 385 367 316 209 200
Reported cases being at maximum the first year after the occupation
are now steadily decreasing.