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4. Epidemic Diseases. The incidence of epidemic diseases in 1970 is
shown in tables II, III and IV, 1—28.
1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 Deaths Totals
1. Acute Tonsillitis 11823 13620 12392 12263 11558 1
2. Acute Respiratory Catarrh 26622 24696 24412 26575 24177 11
3. Diphtheria - - - - - -
4. Dysentery (Paradysentery) - - - - - -
5. Epidemic Encephalitis 2 3 2 4 4 -
6. Erysipelas 47 65 57 32 30 -
7. Ervthema nodosum 10 5 3 6 12 -
8. Rheumatic Fever 16 7 12 8 6 2
9. Enteric Fever - - - - _ -
10. Paratyphoid - 1 - - - -
11. Acute Intestinal Catarrh 5424 5659 4127 4294 5594 12
12. Infectious Hepatitis 3 5 2 5 8 1
13. Herpes Zoster 209 212 228 197 210 -
14. Influenza 8030 965 11254 11064 6830 63
15. Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis . 9 7 8 9 3 7
16. Measles 172 5872 141 2845 747 4
17. Morbus Akureyrensis - - 1 - - -
18. Infective Myositis 103 59 128 51 128 -
19. Mumps 37 17 7258 849 41 -
20. Pemphigus neonatorum 64 47 36 83 34 -
21. Bronchopneumonia 1110 980 908 929 1122 - 505
b. Lobar Pneumonia 64 54 41 50 52
22. Acute Poliomyelitis 2 - - - - -
23. German Measles 139 58 55 84 122 -
24. Scarlet Fever 20 17 46 36 61 -
25. Puerperal Sepsis 1 - - - - 1
26. Epidemic Stomatitis 602 530 310 373 286 -
27. Whooping Cough 1321 6 3 7 6 -
28. Chickenpox 818 688 714 677 888
The table above shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in 1966—
1970 as also the aggregate number of deaths from each disease during
the same period.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1966—1970 are as
follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—4);
1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
Gonorrhoea 167 197 195 178 177
Syphilis 8 4 2 1
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6. Tuberculosis (all forms). Patients registered by the medical of-
ficers at the end of each year (cf. tables VIII, IX and XI):
1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
Púlmonary 163 128 89 81 85
Non-pulmonary 44 35 35 17 13
Total 207 163 124 98 98
Deaths 2 4 4 5 2