Heilbrigðisskýrslur - 01.12.1951, Page 244

1951
— 242
1. Acute Tonsillitis ..............
2. Acute Respiratory Catarrh.......
3. Diphtheria .....................
4. Dysentery (Paradysentery).......
5. Epidemic Encephalitis...........
6. Puerperal Sepsis ...............
7. Acute Rheumatism................
8. Enteric Fever ....................
9. Acute Intestinal Catarrh........
10. Influenza......................
11. Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis
12. Measles .......................
13. Infective Myositis.............
14. Mumps .........................
15. Bronchopneumonia ..............
16. Lobar Pneumonia................
17. Acute Poliomyelitis ...........
18. German Measles ................
19. Searlet Fever..................
20. Epidemic Stomatitis............
21. Whooping Cough.................
22. Chickenpox.....................
23. Erysipelas........................
24. Erythema nodosum...............
25. Epidemic Catarrhal Jaundice....
26. Herpes Zoster ....................
27. Contagious Impetigo............
28. Paratyphoid ...................
1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 Deaths
5273 4689 6909 8737 9850 5
20707 17962 20187 22689 22248 11
2 - 1 - - 2
85 3 5 4 4 -
7 1 7 10 9 4
13 5 9 8 8 1
40 28 26 45 34 4
2 - - I - -
3587 3445 3983 4664 5672 21
6997 583 9308 5591 9314 40
3 3 3 3 8 2
4396 377 2 882 5737 16
23 38 12 26 1250 -
19 397 1411 925 33 -
1296 724 846 819 1541
269 184 143 162 212 j (511
227 538 622 17 85 8
357 157 54 135 75 -
13 193 361 69 42 -
67 82 48 114 387 -
15 - 37 312 2967 4
351 492 435 875 1309 -
24 31 22 28 17 2
15 3 3 5 - -
3 1 3 1 58 2
73 65 65 76 70
90 68 64 89 47 -
1
As in the previous year influenza
and measles ran through the country,
both of them this time more than
averagly dangerous to life. Epidemics
of whooping cough, mgositis and
chickenpox were of some conse-
quence, and pneumonias proved unu-
sually frequent and noxious.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases
in the years 1947—1951 are as follows
(cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3):
1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
Gonorrhoea 535 543 375 208 220
Syphilis 80 61 54 37 25
Soft Chancre 3 „ „ 1 1
6. Tuberculosis (all forms). Patients
registered by the medical officers at
the end of each year (cf. tables V, VI,
VIII, IX and XI):
1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
Pulmonary 829 834 818 841 810
Non-pulmonary 287 172 172 155 146
Total Number of
Notified Cases 1116 1006 990 996 956
Deaths 71 47 36 29 31
Deaths from tuberculosis may by
classified as follows (last year’s fi-
gures in round brackets): Pulmonary
tuberculosis 27 (21), universal tuber-
culosis 1 (3), meningeal tuberculosis
3 (3), abdominal tuberculosis 0 (1),
tuberculosis of the urinary and ge-
nerative organs 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 four years the fall of the
tuberculosis death rate is truly adven-
turous. In 1930 232 died from tuber-
culosis in Iceland (2.16 per 1000 of
the population), 1939: 94 (0.79 per