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1954
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made out lists showing the incidence
of malignant tumors (lymphogranulo-
matosis included: 9 cases) during the
year. According to these lists there
are 452 such patients. On pp. 97—98
these malignant tumors are classified
according to location.
11. School Inspection. In Iceland an
obligatory medical examination of all
school-children takes place at the be-
ginning of each session, especially
with regard to tuberculosis. At the
same time tlie sanitary condition of
the schools is inspected and all mat-
ters bearing upon the health of the
children are looked into. The inspec-
tion is undertaken by the district
medical officers. In Reykjavík, how-
ever, there are special school medical
officers. Table X shows the result of
school inspection in the whole coun-
try, comprising 17356 children.
12. Maternity (cf. tables XII—XIV).
The total number of births in 1954
was 4354, 4286 born alive and 68 still-
born (15.6 per 1000 of the total num-
ber).
Deaths in connection with child-
birtli during the preceding years have
been as follows:
Complications
of Pregnancy,
Childbirth 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954
and Puerperium 5 14 2 5
Puerperal Sepsis „ „ 1 „ „
Total Number
of Deaths 5 15 2 5
The maternity death rate 1954 was
1.1 per 1000 children born. The di-
stribution of maternal deaths is
shown on p. 70.
13. Artificial Abortion (cf. table
XII).
During the year 59 artificial abor-
tions took place under the Birth Con-
trol Act, which came into operation
in 1935. In 22 out of these 59 cases
social as well as medical indications
had been taken into consideration.
14. Accidents. The figure of deaths
by accidents (including suicide) is
0.56 per 1000 of the whole popula-
tion.
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954
Deaths by Suicide 17 18 17 12 19
Deaths by
other Violence 92 92 71 90 70
The distribution of deaths by acci-
dents is shown on pp. 71—72.
15. Care of Infants may be said to
be fairly good, the great majority of
the children being breast-fed. The
midwives have made out a report
(table XIII) concerning 4288 infants
born during the year. Reports on the
nutrition of infants were submitted
in 4109 cases which accordingly were
grouped as follows (Reykjavík figures
in brackets) :
Breast-fed ..... 93.6 p.c. (98.7 p.c.)
Breast-
and bottle-fed 3.5 — (0.2 — )
Bottle-fed only . 2.9 — ( 1.1 — )
16. Health Officials and Auxiliary
Personnel (cf. table I). The total nuni-
ber of licensed medical men in Iceland
was 201 in 1954. There are 53 medical
districts. The number of midwives
holding appointments is 157 while
the number of districts is about 200.
Trained nurses do little service out-
side hospitals and institutions. Den-
tists are very few (36 in the whole
country). Trained dispensing chemists
are only in the larger towns, in vil-
lages and in the country the district
medical officers have a small drug
store.
17. General Insurance. The National
Insurance Act from 1936 (amended
several times) covers besides disea-
ses: accident, disablement and old
age insurance, sickness insurance
being obligatory for the whole coun-
try since 1 October 1951.
At the end of the year 94454 per-
sons were registered insured under
the National Insurance Act, organi-