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SECTION "F" — PREVALENCE OF, and CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
Principal notifiable diseases (other than Tuberculosis)
Number of Notified Cases (corrected for revised diagnosis) during
the year 1947 with comparative figures for the previous six years. It
should be borne in mind that some of the war-time figures were considerably
affected by evacuation of population.
Number of cases notified
Diseases
1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941
Cerebro-spinal fever 19 11 3 4 8 25 31
Continued and relapsing fever — — 1 — - — —
Diphtheria 9 8 24 24 26 53 82
Dysentery 26 57 31 65 23 34 13
Encephalitis lethargica (acute) — 1 — — — — —
Enteric or typhoid fever 4 2 — — 1 2 11
Erysipelas 45 34 50 86 57 52 60
Hydrophobia — 1— — — — —
Malaria 4 15 — — — — —
Measles 810 1,307 462 688 1,270 858 726
Ophthalmia neonatorum 9 4 1 4 17 4 4
Pneumonia 104 108 71 110 176 103 148
Polioencephalitis (acute) 11 — — — — — —
Poliomyelitis (acute) 61 — 5 — — 5 1
Puerperal pyrexia 43 31 21 19 20 27 19
Scabies* 122 348 566 654 515 * *
Scarlet fever 254 155 197 270 683 255 98
Smallpox 1 — — 1 — — —
Puerperal fever — 1 4 1 1 3 2
Whooping cough 362 291 238 275 219 254 415
TOTALS 1,884 2,374 1,674 2,201 3,016 1,675 1,612
*Notifiable as from 1 August 1943.