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1963
— 220 —
The table above shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in 1959—
1963 as also the aggregate number of deaths from each disease during
the same period.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1959—1963 are
as follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3):
1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
Gonorrhoea 98 189 240 238 122
Syphilis 11 15 4 3 13
Soft Chancre 1 1 1 »> >»
6. Tuberculosis (all forms). Patients registered by the medical of-
ficers at the end of each year (cf. tables VIII, IX and XI) :
1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
Pulmonary 402 330 282 257 227
Non-pulmonary Total Number of Notified 93 88 69 81 70
Cases 495 418 351 338 297
Deaths 8 5 2 5 3
Deaths from tuberculosis this year are classified as follows (last
year’s figures in round brackets): Pulmonary tuberculosis 3 (4),
tuberculosis of central nervous system 0 (0), tuberculosis of intestines
0 (0), tuberculosis of the urinary and generative organs 0 (1). The
death rate from tuberculosis was: 0.02 (0.03) per 1000 of the popula-
tion.
7. Leprosy. Patients known in the whole country at the end of each
year.
1969 1960 1961
Number of Patients .... 5 4 4
No new case was discovered this year.
8. Hydatid Disease.
1959 1960 1961
Number of Patients .... 1 3 1
Deaths ...................... „ 1 „
1962
3
1962
2
1963
3
1963
1
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, 9 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).
Number of Patients ....

1959
33
1960
25
1961
8
1962
40
1963
28