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4. Epidemic Diseases. The incidence of epidemic diseases in 1972
is shown in tables II, III and IV, 1-32.
1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 Deaths Totals
1. Typhoid Fever _ _ _ _ 1 _
2 . Paratyphoid - “ - “
3. Other Salmonella Infect. 4 2
4. Bacillary Dysentery .... - “
5. Enteritis and Diarrhoeal
Disease 4127 4294 5594 3803 3436 7
6. Diphtheria - - - -
7. Whooping Cough 3 7 6 544 163
8. Streptococcal Sore
Throat, ac. Pharyng. or
Tonsillitis 12392 12263 11558 12382 9358
9. Scarlet Fever 46 36 61 70 134 -
10. Erysipelas 57 32 30 47 82
11. Meningococcal Meningitis 8 9 3 4 10 4
12. Acute Poliomyelitis .... - - - - - -
13. Chickenpox 714 677 888 1323 676 -
14. Herpes Zoster 228 197 210 212 195 -
15. Measles 141 2845 747 13 88 -
16. Rubella 55 84 122 84 819 -
17. Encephalitis (viral NOS) 2 4 4 1 3 -
18. Infectious Hepatitis .... 2 5 8 3 1 1
19. Mumps 7258 849 41 399 356 -
20. Epidemic Pleurodynia ... 128 51 128 189 132
21. Rheumatic Fever 12 8 6 6 9
22 . Ac. upper Respirat. Cath.
and Bronchitis 24412 26575 24177 28661 23718 11
23. Influenza 11254 11064 6830 6072 6910 78
24. Pneumonia 949 979 1174 915 653 523
25. Sepsis Puerperalis - - 2 -
26. Pemphigus Neonatorum ... 36 83 34 31 8 “
The table above shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in 1968 -
1972 as also the aggregate number of deaths from each disease during
the same period.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1968 - 1972 are
as follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1-4):
1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
Gonorrhoea ........................... 195 178 177 199 224
Syphilis ............................... 2 - 1 - 4
Soft Chancre ........................... 2 - - 1 -