Heilbrigðisskýrslur - 01.12.1966, Side 185

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1966
Per1000
Per 1000 of of the
Number deaths population
Diseases of the Heart 400 287.6 2.04
Cancer — Malignant Neoplasms 277 199.1 1.42
Apoplexy 167 120.0 0.85
Violence (all forms) 137 98.5 0.70
Pneumonia (Pn. of Infants included) .. 112 80.5 0.57
Diseases of Infants (Pn. excepted) .... 37 26.6 0.19
General Arteriosclerosis 21 15.1 0.11
Infections of Kidney 19 13.6 0.10
Congenital Malformation 17 12.2 0.09
Hyperplasia of Prostate 16 11.5 0.08
Other and unknown Causes 188 135.2 0.96
4. Epidemic Diseases. The incidence of epidemic diseases in 1966 is
shown in tables II, III and IV, 1—28.
1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 Deaths
1. Acute Tonsillitis 13851 13509 12758 11264 11823
2. Acute Respiratory Catarrh 28814 25437 28820 31640 26622 24
3. Diphtheria - - - - - -
4. Dysentery (Paradysentery) 4 - - - - -
5. Epidemic Encephalitis 10 16 6 3 2 2
6. Erysipelas 48 65 78 41 47 -
7. Ervthema nodosum 6 22 11 21 10 -
8. Rheumatic Fever 22 28 40 25 16 4
9. Enteric Fever - - - - - -
10. Paratyphoid - 1 - 1 - 1
11. Acute Intestinal Catarrh 5447 6378 4519 6219 5424 15
12. Infectious Hepatitis 21 3 9 6 3 -
13. Herpes Zoster 210 204 190 210 209 1
14. Influenza 14646 10436 4542 2967 8030 94
15. Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis . 41 29 16 7 9 20
16. Measles 3111 4040 255 5 172 7
17. Morbus Akureyrensis - 1 1 - - -
18. Infective Myositis 128 67 3927 233 103 -
19. Mumps 2144 564 63 45 37 -
20. Pemphigus neonatorum 27 17 39 39 64 -
21. Bronchopneumonia 1602 1513 1333 1242 1110 437
b. Lobar Pneumonia 112 89 84 74 64
22. Acute Poliomyelitis 1 2 - - 2 -
23. German Measles 125 3763 2317 91 139 -
24. Scarlet Fever 286 735 106 31 20 -
25. Puerperal Sepsis 2 - - 3 1 1
26. Epidemic Stomatitis 811 696 576 613 602 -
27. Whooping Cough 14 8 6 1136 1321 -
28. Chickenpox 803 1018 1112 1150 818 —
The table above shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in 1962—
1966 as also the aggregate number of deaths from each disease during
the same period.