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5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1961—1965 are
as follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3):
1961
Gonorrhoea .................. 240
Syphilis .................... 4
Soft Chanere .................. 1
1962 1963 1964 1965
238 122 145 140
3 13 29 15
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6. Tuberculosis (all forms). Patients registered by the medical
officers at the end of each year (cf. tables VIII, IX and XI):
1961 1962 1963 1964 1965
Pulmonary 282 257 227 213 171
Non-pulmonary 69 81 70 51 44
Total Number of Notified Cases 351 338 297 264 215
Deaths 2 5 3 2 3
Deaths from tuberculosis this year are classified as follows (last
year’s figures in round brackets): Pulmonary tuberculosis 3 (2),
tuberculosis of central nervous system 0 (0), tuberculosis of intestines
0 (0), tuberculosis of the urinary and generative organs 0 (0). The
death rate from tuberculosis was: 0.02 (0.01) per 1000 of the popula-
tion.
7. Leprosy. Patients known in the whole country at the end of each
year.
Number of Patients
1961 1962 1963
4 3 3
1964 1965
3 3
No new cases were discovered this year.
8. Hydatid Disease.
Deaths ............
1961
1962
2
1963
1
1964
1
1965
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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, 8 cases are reported, all of them old people,
only with some or other remains of the disease.
9. Scabies (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 4).
Number of Patients
1961 1962 1963
8 40 28
1964 1965
77 344