Heilbrigðisskýrslur - 01.12.1971, Qupperneq 145

— 143
1971
4. Epidemic Diseases. The incidenee of epidemic diseases in 1971 is
shown in tables II, III and IV, 1—32.
1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 Deaths Totals
1. Typhoid Fever - - - - - -
2. Paratyphoid 1 - - - - -
3. Other Salmonella Infections 4 -
4. Bacillary Dysentery - - - - - -
5. Enteritis and Diarrhoeal Disease .... 5659 4127 4294 5594 3803 9
6. Diphtheria - - - - - -
7. Whooping Cough 8. Streptococcal Soar Throat, 6 3 7 6 544 —
ac. Pharyng. or Tonsill 13620 12392 12263 11558 12382 1
9. Scarlet Fever 17 46 36 61 70 -
10. Erysepelas 65 57 32 30 47 -
11. Meningococcal Menningitis 7 8 9 3 4 6
12. Acute Poliomyelitis - - - - - “
13. Chickenpox 688 714 677 888 1323 -
14. Herpes Zoster 212 228 197 210 212 -
15. Measles 5872 141 2845 747 13 4
16. Rubella 58 55 84 122 84 -
17. Encephalitis (viral NOS) 3 2 4 4 1 -
18. Infectious Hepatitis 5 2 5 8 3 2
19. Mumps 17 7258 849 41 399 -
20. Epidemic Pleurodynia 59 128 51 128 189 -
21. Rheumatic Fever 22. Ac. upper Respirat. Cath. and 7 12 8 6 6 ~
Bronchitis 24696 24412 26575 24177 28661 13
23. Influenza 965 11254 11064 6830 6072 58
24. Pneumonia 1034 949 979 1174 915 506
25. Sepsis Puerperalis - - - - 2 -
26. Pemphigus neonatorum 47 36 83 34 31
The table above shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in 1967—
1971 as also the aggregate number of deaths from each disease during
the same period.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1967—1971 are as
follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1—4):
Gonorrhoea
Syphilis ....
Soft Chancre
1967
197
4
1968
195
2
2
1969
178
»
»
1970
177
1
1971
199
»
1
6. Tuberculosis (all forms). Patients registered by the medical of-
ficers at the end of each year (cf. tables VIII, IX and XI):
1967 1968 1969 1970 1971
Pulmonary 128 89 81 85 86
Non-pulmonary 35 35 17 13 17
Total 124 98 98 103
Deaths 4 5 2 3