Heilbrigðisskýrslur - 01.12.1967, Síða 175

— 173
1967
Per 1000
Per 1000 of of the
Number deaths population
Diseases of the Heart 415 299.6 2.09
Cancer — Malignant Neoplasms 292 210.8 1.47
Apoplexy 163 117.7 0.82
Violence (all forxns) 129 93.1 0.65
Pneumonia (Pn. of Infants included) .. 86 62.1 0.43
Diseases of Infants (Pn. excepted) .... 38 27.4 0.19
General Arteriosclerosis 34 24.5 0.17
Hyperplasia of Prostate 16 11.6 0.08
Infections of Kidney 15 10.8 0.08
Senility 13 9.4 0.06
Other and unknown Causes 184 132.8 0.93
4. Epidemic Diseases. The incidence of epidemic diseases in 1967 is
shown in tables II, III and IV, 1—28.
1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 Deaths Totals
1. Acute Tonsillitis 13509 12758 11264 11823 13620 1
2. Acute Respiratory Catarrh 25437 28820 31640 26622 24696 24
3. Diphtheria - - -
4. Dysentery (Paradysentery) - - - -
5. Epidemic Encephalitis 16 6 3 2 3 2
6. Erysipelas 65 78 41 47 65 -
7. Erythema nodosum 22 11 21 10 5 -
8. Rheumatic Fever 28 40 25 16 7 4
9. Enteric Fever - - - - - -
10. Paratyphoid 1 - 1 - 1 1
11. Acute Intestinal Catarrh 6378 4519 6219 5424 5659 15
12. Infectious Hepatitis 3 9 6 3 5 1
13. Herpes Zoster 204 190 210 209 212 1
14. Influenza 10436 4542 2967 8030 965 59
15. Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis . 29 16 7 9 7 15
16. Measles 4040 255 5 172 5872 8
17. Morbus Akureyrensis 1 1 - - - -
18. Infective Myositis . 67 3927 233 103 59 -
19. Mumps 564 63 45 37 17 -
20. Pemphigus neonatorum 17 39 39 64 47 -
21. Bronchopneumonia 1513 1333 1242 1110 980 - 452
b. Lobar Pneumonia 89 84 74 64 54
22. Acute Poliomyelitis 2 - - 2 - -
23. German Measles 3763 2317 91 139 58 -
24. Scarlet Fever 735 106 31 20 17 -
25. Puerperal Sepsis - - 3 1 - 1
26. Epidemic Stomatitis 696 576 613 602 530 -
27. Whooping Cough 8 6 1136 1321 6 -
28. Chickenpox 1018 1112 1150 818 688
The table above shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in 1963—
1967 as also the aggregate number of deaths from each disease during
the same period.