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4. Epidemic Diseases. The incidence of epidemic diseases in 1969 is
shown in tables II, III and IV, 1—28.
1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Deaths Totals
1. Acute Tonsillitis 11264 11823 13620 12392 12263 1
2. Acute Respiratory Catarrh 31640 26622 24696 24412 26575 12
3. Diphtheria - - - - - -
4. Dysentery (Paradysentery) - - - -
5. Epidemic Encephalitis 3 2 3 2 4 -
6. Erysipelas 41 47 65 57 32 -
7. Erythema nodosum 21 10 5 3 6 -
8. Rheumatic Fever 25 16 7 12 8 3
9. Enteric Fever - - - - - -
10. Paratyphoid 1 - 1 - - -
11. Acute Intestinal Catarrh 6219 5424 5659 4127 4294 13
12. Infectious Hepatitis 6 3 5 2 5 1
13. Herpes Zoster 210 209 212 228 197 1
14. Influenza 2967 8030 965 11254 11064 55
15. Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis . 7 9 7 8 9 9
16. Measles 5 172 5872 141 2845 4
17. Morbus Akureyrensis - - - 1 - -
18. Infective Myositis 233 103 59 128 51 -
19. Mumps 45 37 17 7258 849 -
20. Pemphigus neonatorum 39 64 47 36 83 -
21. Bronchopneumonia 1242 1110 980 908 929 L sno
b. Lobar Pneumonia 74 64 54 41 50
22. Acute Poliomyelitis - 2 - - - -
23. German Measles 91 139 58 55 84 -
24. Scarlet Fever 31 20 17 46 36 -
25. Puerperal Sepsis 3 1 - - - 1
26. Epidemic Stomatitis 613 602 530 310 373 -
27. Whooping Cough 1136 1321 6 3 7 -
28. Chickenpox 1150 818 688 714 677 ~~
The table above shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in 1965—
1969 as also the aggregate number of deaths from each disease during
the same period.
5. Veneral Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1965—1969 are
as follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—4):
1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
Gonorrhoea ...................... 140 167 197 195 178
Syphilis ......................... 15 8 4 2 ,,
Soft Chancre ...................... 1 „ „ 2 „