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4. Epidemic Diseases. The incidence of epitlemic diseases in 1950
is shown in tables II, III and IV, 1—27.
The following table shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in
1941—1950 as also the aggregate number of deaths from each disease
during the same period.
1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 Deathsj
Acute Tonsillitis .. 4781 5506 5608 4793 6588 5936 5273 4689 6909 8737 12
Acute Respiratory Catarrh 20248 21777 14086 18459 16158 18812 20707 17962 20187 22689 31
Diphtheria 9 11 63 1 1 3 2 1 - 8
Dysentery (Para- dysentery) 135 338 9 49 332 20 85 3 5 4 1
Puerperal Sepsis .. 13 14 15 9 9 12 13 5 9 8 13
Acute Rheumatism . 85 117 95 83 44 42 40 28 26 45 8
Enteric Fever 4 5 - 4 1 1 2 ~ 1
Acute Intestinal Catarrh 2395 4657 2753 3122 4937 3442 3587 3445 3983 4664 52
Influenza 9670 625 12969 1949 863 5378 6997 583 9308 5591 103
Measles - 1 6616 540 3 23 4396 377 2 882 24
Mumps 197 5034 601 13 - 4 19 397 1411 925 1
Bronchopneumonia 1186 1427 808 846 840 888 1296 724 846 819 j-706
Lobar Pneumonia . 517 550 346 307 352 343 269 184 143 162
German Measles .. 1566 29 94 34 12 16 357 157 54 135
Scarlet Fever 158 321 456 261 65 22 13 193 361 69 4
Whooping Cough . 290 4413 39 7 129 1556 15 - 37 312 66
Epidemic Encephalitis .... 2 3 - _ 2 _ 7 1 7 10 10
Erysipelas 96 69 46 33 28 39 24 31 22 28 5
Ervthema nodosum 21 11 17 23 3 15 15 3 3 5 -
Herpes Zoster 59 58 51 65 57 56 73 65 65 76 . -
Epidemic Catarrhal Jaundice 102 169 82 17 8 12 3 1 3 1 2
Contagious Impetigo 629 425 274 179 127 136 90 68 64 89 -
Epidemic Cerebro- spinal Meningitis 46 19 5 13 13 9 3 3 3 3 12
Infective Myositis . 15 76 20 43 318 230 23 38 12 26 -
Acute Poliomj'elitis 1 1 2 368 450 227 538 622 17 32
Epidemic Stomatitis 102 106 119 102 130 94 67 82 48 114 —
Chickenpox 133 337 516 328 299 374 351 492 435 875 "
A troop of “foreign fevers” ran through the country: influenza,
measles, mumps and ivhooping cough, but none of them of great con-
sequence.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1941—1950 are as
follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3):
1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
Gonorrhoea ...................... 324 246 238 333 422 413 535 543 375 208
Syphilis ......................... 83 142 84 74 47 43 80 61 54 37
Soft Chancre ...................... 3 3 2 „ 2 1 3 „ „ 1