(South Tipperary) asked the Minister for Health if he will give the number of notifiable diseases reported under each category over the past five years.
Ceisteanna — Questions. Oral Answers. - Notifiable Diseases.
28.
The information requested by the Deputy is contained in a tabular statement which, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to circulate with the Official Report.
I might mention that figures for the years 1960, 1961 and 1962 have already been published in the annual reports on Vital Statistics, copies of which are in the Library, but for the Deputy's convenience I have included them in the tabular statement.
Following is the statement:
STATEMENT of the number of Notifiable Diseases reported in the period 1960-1964.
|
1960 |
1961 |
1962 |
1963 |
1964 |
|
|
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis |
183 |
63 |
59 |
20 |
17 |
|
Acute Lymphocytic Meningitis |
76 |
40 |
47 |
58 |
48 |
|
Anthrax |
— |
1 |
— |
— |
— |
|
Brucellosis (undulant fever) |
11 |
9 |
13 |
13 |
17 |
|
Cerebro-spinal fever |
42 |
24 |
27 |
21 |
23 |
|
Diarrhoea and Enteritis |
1,344 |
1,445 |
1,694 |
1,551 |
1,431 |
|
Diphtheria |
69 |
42 |
14 |
13 |
32 |
|
Dysentery |
285 |
344 |
213 |
237 |
330 |
|
Encephalitis Lethargica |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Erysipelas |
106 |
75 |
65 |
73 |
73 |
|
Gonorrhoea |
239 |
238 |
310 |
302 |
— |
|
Infective Hepatitis |
1,234 |
1,211 |
741 |
512 |
1,215 |
|
Infective Mononucleosis |
148 |
243 |
93 |
120 |
92 |
|
Influenzal pneumonia |
132 |
416 |
154 |
143 |
136 |
|
Malaria |
— |
1 |
— |
— |
— |
|
Measles |
1,785 |
10,986 |
6,319 |
5,526 |
8,167 |
|
Ophthalmia neonatorum |
1 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
|
Paratyphoid B. |
37 |
2 |
4 |
11 |
4 |
|
Pemphigus Neonatorum |
4 |
— |
— |
1 |
— |
|
Puerperal pyrexia |
6 |
6 |
4 |
6 |
9 |
|
Puerperal sepsis |
5 |
2 |
6 |
9 |
2 |
|
Rubella |
494 |
3,304 |
1,496 |
492 |
819 |
|
Salmonella Infection |
10 |
12 |
35 |
18 |
7 |
|
Scabies (notifiable in urban areas only) |
347 |
316 |
302 |
202 |
148 |
|
Scarlet Fever |
968 |
523 |
568 |
561 |
648 |
|
Syphilis |
72 |
73 |
61 |
41 |
— |
|
Tinea Capitis |
45 |
51 |
49 |
22 |
30 |
|
Tuberculosis |
3,166 |
3,010 |
2,820 |
2,502 |
— |
|
Trachoma |
— |
— |
1 |
— |
— |
|
Typhoid |
10 |
8 |
20 |
15 |
10 |
|
Typhus |
— |
— |
1 |
1 |
— |
|
Weil's Disease |
12 |
4 |
— |
2 |
6 |
|
Whooping Cough |
2,375 |
1,338 |
551 |
1,441 |
1,811 |
Question No. 29 was taken in conjunction with Question No. 11.