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1962
— 198 —
The table above shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in 1958—
1962 as also the aggregate number of deaths from each disease during
the same period.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1958—-1962 are
as follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1- -3):
1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
Gonorrhoea ... 144 98 189 240 238
Syphilis 18 11 15 4 3
Soft Chancre ... 1 1 1 J »
6. Tuberculosis (all forms). Patients registered by the medical officers
at the end of each year (cf. tables VIII, IX og XI):
1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
Pulmonary .... 501 402 330 282 257
Non-pulmonary Total Number of 104 93 88 69 81
Notified cases , 605 495 418 351 338
Deaths 6 8 5 2 5
Deaths from tuberculosis this year are classified as follows (last year’s
figures in round brackets): Pulmonary tuberculosis 4 (2), tuberculosis
of central nervous system 0 (0), tuberculosis of intestines 0 (0), tubercu-
losis of the urinary and generative organs 1 (0). The death rate from
tuberculosis was: 0.03 (0.01) per 1000 of the population.
7. Leprosy. Patients known in the whole country at the end of each
year.
1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
Number of Patients 5 5 4 4 3
No new case was discovered this year.
8. Hydatid Disease.
1958 1959
Number of Patients .. 3 1
Deaths ................. 2 ,,
1960
3
1
1961
1
JJ
1962
JJ
2
Monthly notification of hydatid disease has now been discontinued, but
in the annual report on the disease, which comprises all medical districts
in this country, 10 cases are reported, most of them very old people,
perhaps only with some or other remains of the disease.
9. Scabies (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 4).
1958 1959
64 33
1960
25
Number of Patients ..
1961
8
1962
40