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5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1963—1967 are
as folloAvs (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—4):
1963 1964 1965 1966 1967
Gonorrhoea .................. 122 145 140 167 197
Syphilis ..................... 13 29 15 8 4
Soft Chancre................... „ 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):
1963 1964 1965 1966 1967
Pulmonary 227 213 171 163 128
Non-pulmonary 70 51 44 44 35
Total Number of Notified Cases 297 264 215 207 163
Deaths 3 2 3 2 4
Deaths from tuberculosis this year are classified as follows (last
year’s figures in round brackets): Pulmonary tuberculosis 4 (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 eaeh
year.
Nunnber of Patients
1963 1964 1965
3 3 3
1966 1967
3 3
No new cases were discovered this year.
8. Hydatid Disease.
1963 1964 1965 1966 1967
Deaths ................ 1 1 „ „ „
Monthly notification of hydatid disease has been discontinued, but
in the annual report on the disease, which comprises all medical dis-
tricts in this country, 5 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, 5).
Nuraber of Patients
10. Cancer
1963
28
1968
258
1964
77
1964
262
1965
344
1965
248
1966
389
1966
277
1967
338
1967
292
Deaths