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Deaths from tuberculosis this year are classified as follows (last
year’s figures in round brackets): Pulmonary tuberculosis 3 (2). All
other forms 0 (0). The death rate from tuberculosis was: 0.01 (0.01)
per 1000 of the population.
7. Leprosy. Patients known in the whole country at the end of each
Number of Patients 1967 3 1968 3 1969 3 1970 3 1971 2
No new cases were discovered this year.
8. Hydatid Disease. Deaths 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971

Only a few residual cases on record, all of them old people.
9. Scabies (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 5).
Number of Patients 1967 338 1968 314 1969 274 1970 452 1971 707
10. Cancer.
Deaths 1967 292 1968 294 1969 293 1970 267 1971 290
11. School Health Service. The School Health Act and Regulations
came into force in the years 1957 and 1958 respectively. According to the
legislation a periodical medical examination of all pupils is performed
every second year, but tuberculosis control of pupils and school person-
nel is performed every year. Pupils needing medical treatment or
further observation are kept under special supervision as long as school
doctors find it necessary. Much stress is laid on supervising the pupils,
whether known to be previously unwell or healthy, all through the
school year, teachers and parents being urged to refer to the school
doctors every pupil who according to their judgement needs to be
examined. Teachers have to make reports about their pupils' health
twice a year. The district medical officers act as school doctors except
in Reykjavík and Hafnarfjörður, where there are special school doctors,
all of whom are working part-time. Table X shows the diseases and ail-
ments discovered at the periodical medical examination.
12. Matemity (cf. tables XIII—XIV). The total number of births in
1971 was 4315, 4277 born alive and 38 stillborn.