Annual report / Municipality of Singapore, Health Department.
- Singapore. Municipality Health Department.
- Date:
- [1938]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report / Municipality of Singapore, Health Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Singapore, 7th February, 1939. The President, Municipal Commissioners, Singapore. Sir, I have the honour to submit my report on the working of the Health Department during the year 1938. 1- -> • I. NOTIFIABLE DISEASES. 1801 cases were notified against 1233 in 1937 and 1533 in 1936. The following table shows the comparison between this year and the previous ten years:— <D > > CD - Year Typhoid Fever T3 • r—t o X >> c3 Sh (U Diphtheria Chicken-pox Puei’peral Fev« Erysipelas c3 .s m i o rH rO CD rH 6 Small-pox Plague Cholera Typhus Fever Scarlet Fever Anthrax Leprosy TOTAL 1928 230 12 59 350 11 8 ! 151 i 1 9) 1 5! 9 l| 3 — — 712 1929 133 — 57 577 IS 8 1 81 9] 1 3| 1 1 6 — — 809 1930 156 2 63 349 11 9 22 —1 1 — 2 — — 614 1931 150 x 65 211 28 6 8 3 | ! — 472 1932 114 1 124 542 16 2 6 8 — — 1 — — 814 1933 248 7 244 288 n 5 4 1 1 — l — — _ 810 1934 116 4 254 412 6 5 7 1 — 3 2 — — 810 1935 415 9 193 529 16 5 a 52 — - 18 — — — 1,248 1936 455 6 176 833 1 22 9 16 1 15 — — 1,533 1937 222 5 1 217 I ! 709i 16 1 1 6 17 - _ — 8| — 1 32 1,233 Average for j r ! 1 1 1 I f | 1 ' 10 years i 223.9 1 4.71 145.21 480 1 1 | 15 1 6.3 1 10.91 8.4 1 0.9 0.9| 4.6 1 1.4 0.1 * i 905.5 1938 1 1 736 1 1 1 4| 262 1 1 ! 1 1 [ 659| 31] 11 11 1 -tfr. to ! — — 10 — — | 62 I 1,801 * Leprosy was only made notifiable in 1937.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31489801_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
