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Tuberculosis
Notifications received during the year ended
31st December, 1955
Respiratory 232 (352)
Non-respiratory 21 (17)
Deaths certified 36 (41)
The notifications per 1,000 population for thepast ten years
(1946-55) have been 1.16, 1.68, 1.63. 2.01, 1.87. 1.86, 1.55,
1.52, 1.63. 1.13.
16,075 persons were x-rayed during the visit of the Mass X
Ray unit to the Town Hall (September-December).
Notifications received during the year ended
31st December, 1955
Rate per 1, 000
Population
Scarlet Fever 139 (133) 0.62 (0.59)
Diphtheria 1 ( - ) 0.0 ( - )
Erysipelas 17 (14) 0.07 (0.06)
Puerperal Pyrexia 128 (148 ) 0.57 ( 0.65)
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 14 (4) 0.06 (0.02)
Measles 3,798 (482) 16.94 (2.13)
Whooping Cough 287 ( 321) 1.28 (1.42)
Primary Pneumonia 134 (134) 0.60 (0.59)
Influenzal Pneumonia
Malaria (relapse) - (2) - (0.01)
Dysentery 81 (84) 0.36 (0.37)
Food Poisoning 82 (154) 0.37 (0.68)
Scabies 30 (48) 0.13 (0. 21)
Typhoid 1 (2) 0.00 (0.01)
Paratyphoid 1 (1) 0.00 (0.00)
Polio-Myelitis (Paralytic) 19 (4) 0.08 (0.02)
(Non-Paralytic) 12 (2) 0.05 (0.01)
Meningococcal Infection 2 (6) 0.00 (0.03)
Encephalitis (Post-Infective) 1 ( - ) 0.00 ( - )