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5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1962—1966 are
as follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—3):
1962 1963 1964 1965 1966
Gonorrhoea .................. 238 122 145 140 167
Syphilis ...................... 3 13 29 15 8
Soft Chancre .................. „ „ 1 1 „
6. Tuberculosis (all forms). Patients registered by the medical
officers at the end of each year (cf. tables VIII, IX and XI):
1962 1963 1964 1965 1966
Pulmonary 257 227 213 171 163
Non-pulmonary 81 70 51 44 44
Total Number of Notified Cases 338 297 264 215 207
Deaths 5 3 2 3 2
Deaths from tuberculosis this year are classified as follows (last
year’s figures in round brackets): Pulmonary tuberculosis 2 (3),
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: 0.01 (0.02) per 1000 of the popula-
tion.
7. Leprosy. Patients known in the whole country at the end of each
year.
1962 1963 1964 1965
Number of Patients...... 3 3 3 3
No new cases were discovered this year.
8. Hydatid Disease.
1966
3
Deaths
1962 1963 1964
2 11
1965 1966
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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, 6 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).
1962 1963 1964 1965 1966
40 28 77 344 389
Number of Patients ....