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TABLE L.
Statistics of Notifiable Diseases.
Cases
notified
Attackrate
per
1,000
Deaths
registered
Case
mortality
per 100
Cases
removed
to
hospital
Per cent.
of cases
removed
Infected
houses
Annual
Average
of cases
notified
1921-1930
Cholera
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Smallpox
1
0.00
—
—
1
100.00
1
17.4
Scarlet Fever
1,369
4.82
3
0.22
1,197
87.44
1,267
1,056.5
Diphtheria
797
2.81
45
5.64
795
99.75
705
732.3
Membranous Croup
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
2.9
Typhus
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Enteric
2
0.01
1
50.00
2
100.00
2
18.4
Relapsing Fever
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Erysipelas
170
0.60
7
4.12
88
51.77
169
123.2
Puerperal Fever
20
0.07
6
30.00
10
50.00
20
28.7
Puerperal Pyrexia
75
0.26
4
5.33
8
10.66
75
48.8
Plague
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Cerebro-Spinal Fever
10
0.04
8
80.00
10
100.00
10
6.3
Polio-myelitis
2
0.02
—
—
1
50.00
2
5.4
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
33
0.21
—
—
8
24.24
33
56.2
Measles
4,343
15.30
67
1.54
802
18.47
3,574
2,532.6
German Measles
536
1.90
—
—
31
5.78
462
425.1
Tuberculosis—
Pulmonary (primary)
444
1.56
232
—
—
—
—
507.6
Non-pulmonary (primary)
70
0.25
35
—
—
—
—
104.3
Malaria
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
6.2
Dysentery
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1.3
Primary Pneumonia (Acute)
262
0.92
76
29.00
114
43.51
260
228.2
Influenzal Pneumonia (Acute)
77
0.27
3
3.89
8
10.39
76
123.0
†Encephalitis Lethargica
2
0.01
3
—
1
50.00
2
11.1
Trench Fever
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
0.1
Anthrax
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
0.2
†Food Poisoning
19
0.07
—
-
5
26.32
13
-
* Including 1 case of Post-basic Meningitis. †Including 1 death from Post Encephalitis Lethargica.
‡Compulsorily notifiable from September, 1932.
N.B.—Of the cases originally notified during 1934, the following were found afterwards not to be suffering from the diseases
notified :—Diphtheria, 96 ; Scarlet Fever, 46 ; Measles. 42 ; German Measles, 1.