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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. Scarlet Fever...................
20. Epidemic Stomatitis.............
21. Whooping Cough..................
22. Chickenpox......................
23. Erysipelas......................
24. Erythema nodosum................
25. Infectious Hepatitis............
26. Herpes Zoster ..................
27. Contagious Impetigo.............
28. Paratyphoid ....................
1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 Deatha
9850 10365 9183 8466 10065 5
22248 30357 22828 27438 25008 23
- - 1 - - 1
4 1 6 4 26 -
9 8 11 16 20 3
8 6 6 4 4 1
34 32 31 45 52 3
5672 3850 5008 4414 4831 26
9314 4344 10920 2342 11044 68
8 7 5 12 9 5
5737 1507 396 6573 1214 19
1250 187 155 100 214 -
33 14 12 434 5977 1
1541 1999 1720 2650 1488
212 273 188 231 188
85 30 7 11 833 4
75 41 38 2453 1442 -
42 21 32 39 66 -
387 529 570 500 357 -
2967 1595 1162 2076 321 10
1309 750 1061 1201 873 -
17 32 14 28 13 -
58 155 15 9 6 1
70 76 69 82 73 _
47 47 39 46 65 _
2 42 11 1
4. Epidemic Diseases. The incidence
of epidemic diseases in 1955 is shown
in tables II, III and IV, 1—28.
The table above shows the in-
cidence of epidemic diseases in 1951
-—1955 as also the ag'gregate number
of deaths from each disease during
the same period.
Communicable diseases were of
even uncommon consequence during
the year. Measles and German Measles
epidemics in the preceding year stret-
ched their course into this year.
Influenza and Mumps ran through the
whole country. In the last quarter of
the year a great Polio epidemic raged
in the capital, and elsewhere chiefly
in the south and west part of tlie
country, having not yet finished its
ravage at the end of the year. Whoo-
ping Cough showed up in some
places. The endemic fevers, Acute
Tonsillitis, Acute Respiratorg Catarrh
and Chickenpox, did not either spare
themselves. In spite of all this the
national health upon the whole can
be characterized as having been fairly
satisfactory, as indicated by an almost
exceptionally low death rate
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases
in the vears 1951—1955 are as follows
(cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3) :
1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Gonorrhoea 220 246 272 476 442
Syphilis 25 12 8 7 11
Soft Chancre 1 „ 4 „ 4
6. Tuberculosis (all forms). Patients
registered by the medical officers at
the end of each year (cf. tables V, VI,
VIII, IX and XI):
1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Pulmonary 810 853 836 752 735
N on-pulmonary Total Number of 146 159 162 130 104
Notified Cases 956 1012 998 882 839
Deaths 31 20 -14 .10 ... 4