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4. Epidemic Diseases. The incidence of epidemic diseases in 1973
is shown in tables II, III and IV, 1-32.
1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 Deaths Totals
1. Typhoid Fever 1
2. -Paratyphoid - - - - 1 -
3. Öther Salmonella Infect. 4 2 3 -
4. Baclllary Dysentery .... - - - - - -
5. Enteritis and Diarrhoeal
Disease 4294 5594 3803 3436 3315 6
6. Diphtheria - - - - - -
7. Whooping Cough 7 6 544 163 44 -
8. Streptococcal Sore
Throat, ac. Pharyng. or
Tonsillitis 12263 11558 12382 9358 8379 —
9. Scarlet Fever 36 61 70 134 90 _
10. Erysipelas 32 30 47 82 73 -
11. Meningococcal Meningitis 9 3 4 10 13 5
12. Acute Poliomyelitis .... - - - - - _
13. Chickenpox 677 888 1323 676 1300 -
14. Herpes Zoster 197 210 212 195 170 -
15. Measles 2845 747 13 88 3877 -
16. Rubella 84 122 84 819 1957 _
17. Encephalitis (viral NOS) 4 4 1 3 2 1
18. Infectious Hepatitis ... 5 8 3 1 4 1
19. Mumps 849 41 399 356 342 1
20. Epidemic Pleurodynia ... 51 128 189 132 65 -
21. Rheumatic Fever 8 6 6 9 10 _
22. Ac. upper Respirat. Cath
and Bronchitis 26575 24177 28661 23718 23900 10
23. Influenza 11064 6830 6072 6910 418 68
24. Pneumonia 979 1174 915 653 652 500
25. Sepsis Puerperalis - - 2 - 1 -
26. Pemphigus Neonatorum ... 83 34 31 8 14
The table above shows the incidence of epidemic diseases in 1969 -
1973-’ as also the aggregate number of deaths from each disease during
the same period.
5. Venereal Diseases. Notified cases in the years 1969 - 1973 are
as follows (cf. tables V, VI and VII, 1 - 4) :
1969 1970 1971 1972 1973
Gonorrhoea .... 177 199 224 270
Syphilis 1 - 4 3
Soft’ Chancre . . - 1 - 1