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1960
1956 1957 1958 1959 1960
1. Acute Tonsillitis 10425 8313 8883 12035 18223 4
2. Acute Respiratory Catarrh 21929 16738 21011 26631 27405 25
3. Diphtheria _ - _ _ _ _
4. Dysentery (Paradysentery) 1 2 _ _ _ _
S.'Epiddnic Encephaiitis 9 4 4 8 23 -
6. Puerperal Sepsis 2 6 1 1 3 1
7. Acute Rheumatism 31 26 23 39 27 1
8. Enteric Fever _ _ _ _ _ _
9- Acute Intestinal Catarrh 3983 4293 6053 5622 5433 23
10. Influenza 11934 18386 1568 20100 4099 134
11. Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis 76 22 51 35 31 9
12. Measles 7 12 2701 4401 5 3
13. Infective Myositis 143 967 337 158 277 _
l4.*Mumps 176 25 13 27 135 1
15.; Bronchopneumonia 1099 800 895 1909 1693 J.373
10. Lobar Pneumonia 128 87 94 123 143
17. Acute Poliomyelitis 320 - - - 1 -
18. German Measles 353 73 448 96 71 -
19. Scarlet Fever 158 154 51 92 45 -
20. Epidemic Stomatitis 373 458 519 511 686 -
21. Whooping Cough 58 7 1 3594 617 2
22. Chickenpox 525 1254 1279 1092 1750 2
23.yErysipelas 22 23 23 17 13 2
24. Erythema nodosum 1 2 1 2 - -
25. Infectious Hepatitis 7 7 11 5 1 2
26. Herpes Zoster 71 62 69 112 106 -
27. Contagious Impetigo 51 41 20 22 20 -
28. Paratyphoid “ — — —
4. Epidemic Diseases. The incidence
°f epidemic diseases in 1960 is shown
in tables II, III and IV, 1—28.
The table above shows the incidence
°f epidemic diseases in 1956—1960 as
also the aggregate number of deaths
from each disease during the same
Period.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases
in the years 1956—1960 are as follows
(cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3):
1956 1957 1958 1959 1960
Gonorrhoea 283 187 144 98 189
oyphilis 22 5 18 11 15
S°ft Chancre „ 1 ,. 1 1
6- Tuberculosis (all forms). Patients
’egistered by the medical officers at
he end of each year (cf. tables V, VI,
VIII. IX and XI):
Pulmonary
Non-pulmonary
Total Number of
Notified cases
Ilcaths
1956 1957 1958 1959 1960
669 614 501 402 330
88 109 104 93 88
757 723 605 495 418
13 7 6 8 5
Deaths from tuberculosis this year
are classified as follows (last year’s fi-
gures in round brackets): Pulmonary
tuberculosis 4 (6), tuberculosis of
central nervous system 0 (0), tuber-
culosis of intestines 1 (0), tubercu-
losis of the urinary and generative
organs 0 (2). The death rate from
tuberculosis was lower than in the
previous year: 0.03 (0.05) per 1000 of
the population.
7. Leprosy. Patients known in the
whole country at the end of each year
(cf. tables V and VI):