Heilbrigðisskýrslur - 01.12.1959, Page 236

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1. Acute Tonðillitis ..............
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 ...................
1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Deatha
10065 10425 8313 8883 12035 5
25008 21929 16738 21011 26631 26
— - — - — —
26 1 2 - - -
20 9 4 4 8 -
4 2 6 1 1 1
52 31 26 23 39 1
— — — - — —
4831 3983 4293 6053 5622 23
11044 11934 18386 1568 20100 141
9 76 22 51 35 10
1214 7 12 2701 4401 3
214 143 967 337 158 -
5977 176 25 13 27 2
1488 1099 800 895 1909
188 833 128 320 87 94 123 J.402 4
1442 353 73 448 96 -
66 158 154 51 92 -
357 373 458 519 511 -
321 58 7 1 3594 2
873 525 1254 1279 1092 1
13 22 23 23 17 1
_ 1 2 1 2 -
6 7 7 11 5 2
73 71 62 69 112 -
65 51 41 20 22 -
11 - “
4. Epidemic Diseases. The incidence
of epidemic diseases in 1959 is shown
in tables II, III and IV, 1—28.
The table above shows the incidence
of epidemic diseases in 1955—1959 as
also the aggregate number of deaths
from each disease during the same
period.
Epidemic diseases caused much
illness this year and these no doubt
account for the somewhat higher
death rate. Respiratory catarrh and
acute tonsillitis were more common
than usual. Influenza was widespread
in the spring, the number of reported
cases being higher than in recent
epidemics. An epidemic of measles
which had broken out late in 1958
went on during the former half of
the year, and whooping cough broke
out in the latter half.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases
in the years 1955—1959 are as follows
(cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3):
1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Gonorrhoea 442 283 187 144 98
Syphilis 11 22 5 18 H
Soft Chancre 4 „ 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):
Pulmonary
Non-pulmonary
Total Number of
Notified cases
Deaths
1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
736 669 614 601 402
88 88 109 104 93
824 757 723 605 495
4 13 7 6 8
Deaths from tuberculosis this year
are classified as follows (last year’s fi-
gures in round brackets): Pulmonary