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Table B.—Notifications of Cases of Notifiable Diseases by Health Districts for Year ended 31st December, 1945

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d s? to 1 g ■a S <3 a eg "So 2 Name of Disease. 1 3 pi 1 1 w q 1 O rQ 13 1 jg § 5 *4 1 § < ,g EH 1 i a OS 1 8 1 to . a >> I Co s 1 *- PI 1 -s 1 8 §> 1 1 s o pi o xn oS £ ft H "03 § £ g 0 !§ 9 0 1 J 0 0 0 m ■ "0. > H . Scarlet fever 20 638 643 207 235 250 893 737 37 649 83 240 401 5,033 Diphtheria 49 204 223 38 42 58 130 93 83 42 6 11 17 996 Enteric fever — (a) Typhoid 1 3 1 3 1 4 2 3 1 4 23 (b) Paratyphoid 1 5 1 1 8 Tuberculosis — (a) Pulmonary 23 369 73 25 54 29 167 412 61 248 37 145 79 1,722 (b) Other forms 5 64 5 8 2 16 83 14 57 1 66 8 329 Cerebro-spinal fever 4 22 6 5 7 1 3 23 18 1 5 3 98 Acute poliomyelitis 1 3 2 2 6 14 Influenza (pneumonic, &c.) 1 1 2 1 1 6 Erysipelas 4 59 18 "3 17 6 34 42 10 31 3 11 10 248 Puerperal fever — - Ordinary 1 12 4 2 3 7 4 7 28 3 4 75 Following abortion 36 1 4 17 42 100 Eclampsia Tetanus 11 1 3 4 7 2 12 *4 2 46 1 2 1 1 2 3 1 1 12 Hydatids Trachoma 4 2 1 9 7 15 3 41 1 3 3 1 2 10 Ophthalmia neonatorum _,. 3 1 1 5 Food poisoning 4 90 ' '2 3 1 4 ' 7 111 Bacillary dysentery 5 53 3 4 i5 38 22 4 7 151 Amoebic dysentery 3 1 6 7 4 21 Undulant fever 5 1 6 1 1 11 25 Chronic' lead poisoning 1 2 3 Malaria 1 49 i6 2 1 1 i6 47 4 30 1 "6 i3 187 Beriberi 53 53 Lethargic encephalitis 1 1 1 1 1 5 Actinomycosis 1 1 1 3 115 1,543 1,083 298 399 402 1,328 1,544 237 1,196 135 506 539 9,325