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6. Tubercnlosis (all forms). Patients registered by the raedical offí-
cers at the end of each year (cf. tables V, VI, VIII, IX and XI):
1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 194G 1947 1948 1949 1950
Pulmonary ....................... 854 853 799 748 746 782 829 834 818 841
N on-pulmonary ................. 259 282 250 231 210 257 287 172 172 155
Total Number of Notified Cases 1113 1135 1049 979 956 1039 1116 1006 990 996
Deaths ......................... 120 104 106 96 88 89 71 47 36 29
Deaths from tuberculosis may be classified as follows (last year’s
figures in round brackets): Pulmonary tuberculosis 21 (25), universal
tuberculosis 3 (1), tuberculosis of bones and joints 0 (2), meningeal
tuberculosis 3 (3), abdominal tuberculosis 1 (2), tuberculosis of the
urinary and generative organs 1 (3).
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 three years the fall of the tuberculosis death rate
is truly adventurous. In 1930 232 died í'rom 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), 1950: 29 (0.2 per 1000).
7. Leprosy. The number of patients has been almost constantly
decreasing in previous years (cf. tables V—VI).
1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
Patients in Leprosarium ......... 16 15 14 13 11 10 9 8 8 8
Patients outside Hospital ........ 5 6 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 3
Total Number of Patients ........ 21 21 19 18 16 15 13 12 12 11
8. Hydatid Disease (cf. tables V and VI).
1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
Number of Patients ............... 6 4 5 1 1 „ „ 2 5 8
Deaths ........................... 6 8 3 5 2 2 1 1 1 4
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, 28 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).
1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
Number of Patients ............ 1569 828 645 460 385 367 316 209 200 212
10. Cancer (cf. tables V and VI).
1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
Number of Patients .............. 75 57 50 58 49 47 50 48 56 71
Deaths ......................... 189 162 194 178 188 155 189 193 190 204
In addition to the monthly reports from district medical officers,
on which the above survey is based, medical officers in all districts
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