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Table 3b.—Notifiable Diseases, by Health Districts, for Year Ended 31st December, 1949 (Europeans)

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o a o +3 A 1 3 Name of Disease. 1 fi 'Zt £ & 1 © 1 eS § t-i 2 ce 1 n S 1 o 1 ■°- .2 almeri North. "1 s i d o £ A 0 3 a .3 " r 3 I | C r e2 0 H H Szi O fb pll 0 H H & H Streptococcal sore throat 9 229 82 19 56 7 121 176 6 122 27 I 96 71 17 1,038 Diphtheria 15 23 2 10 6 10 11 2 3 1 83 Enteric fever — (a) Typhoid 1 5 1 10 1 2 1 1 20 (b) Paratyphoid 1 1 4 Tuberculosis — (a) Pulmonary 22 70 20 20 26 152 208 34 126 17 65 127 48 1,217 (b) Other forms 39 11 5 9 5 23 40 22 35 4 6 39 17 255 Cerebro-spinal meningitis 3 10 3 3 2 9 2 2 4 38 Poliomyelitis 11 121 29 2 31 2 11 7 24 13 4 28 61 2 346 Influenza 1 12 1 14 Erysipelas 1 35 11 11 1 4 20 37 10 3 ' 4 *6 7 150 Puerperal fever —• (a) Ordinary 2 5 1 4 3 5 9 1 22 - 2 2 47 (b) Following abortion 20 1 3 1 34 Eclampsia 2 15 9 2 6 3 6 10 10 4 4 7 78 Tetanus 4 1 1 1 3 2 2 1 1 1 17 Hydatids 4 3 1 1 6 5 5 1 1 27 Trachoma 1 1 1 3 Ophthalmia neonatorum 2 1 2 5 Food poisoning 6 7 1 2 7 10 20 10 1 2 38 104 Bacillary dysentery 7 3 2 102 2 116 Amoebic dysentery .. .. 3 7 37 *2 49 Undulant fever 4 5 3 2 2 3 1 5 1 1 1 3 31 Chronic lead poisoning 1 2 3 Malaria 3 1 1 1 1 2 9 Lethargic encephalitis 3 3 Anchylostomiasis (hookworm) 2 2 Totals 49 804 270 65 145 78 499 587 94 367 67 214 352 102 3,693