Annual report / Municipality of Singapore, Health Department.

  • Singapore. Municipality Health Department.
Date:
[1955]
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Credit: Annual report / Municipality of Singapore, Health Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL STATISTICS. 1955 BIRTHS AND DEATHS ETC.—AIT RACES COMBINED Total births registered ... ,. ... 42,090 Total deaths registered ... ... ... 8.236- Excess of births over deaths ... ... 33.854 Birth Rate ... ... ... ... 48.86 Death Rate ..... ... ... ... 9.56 Malaria Death Rate ... ... ... .02 Infantile Mortality Rate ... ... 51.60 Neo-natal Rate .... ... ... 25.80 Still-Birth Rate per 1,000 live and still births 17.39 Maternal Mortality Rate per 1,000 live-births .97 DEATHS BY WHOM CERTIFIED i , i ; £ % • »• , r i . j ’ 1954 Per cent Medical Practitioners ... ... 65.25 Inspecting Officers ... ... 22.45 Coroner ... — 12.30 NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN 1955 C uses Notified #* Deaths Tuberculosis (all forms) ... 3,577 (including 598 non-residents) 879 Typhoid 131 (including 31 non-residents) 11 Paratyphoid 1 (including 1 non-residents) Nil. Diphtheria 459 (including 112 non-residents) 44 Leprosy 179 (including 59 non-residents) 1 Poliomyelitis ... 20 (including 11 non-residents) 3 Small-pox, Cholera. Plague Nil. Nil. DEATHS CERTIFIED AS DUE TO SOME OF THE NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES IN 1955 1954 1955 Dysentery—Bacillary 15 3 Unspecified 14 11 Amoebic 15 11 Malaria ..? 22 14 Influenza 21 20. Whooping Cough and Complications — 1 Measles and complications ... 17 2> Lcpiospirosis icterohicmorrhagica (Weil's Disease) ‘ ... 3 1 Tetanus ... ...”! 18 19 NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES TREATED AT THE MIDDLETON HOSPITAL IN 1954 AND 1955 Measles and Rubella 1 «< r ij ,]/ 1954 183 1955 200 Whooping Cough • • • 1 4 % 10 5 Amoebic Dysentery • • • 122 136 Bacillary Dysentery • • • • . . 18 17 Clinical Dysentery • • • • • t 34 35 1955 Per cent 64.56 22.22 13.22
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