Annual report / Municipality of Singapore, Health Department.
- Singapore. Municipality Health Department.
- Date:
- [1949]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report / Municipality of Singapore, Health Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![These figures indicate that the incidence of Tuberculosis in age groups over fifteen, in males, is much higher than in females in the corresponding age groups. Of the 4,746 cases notified in residents and non-residents during the year 1,392 (including 158 cases in non-residents) were notified by S.A.T.A. and 1,131 (including 176 cases in non-residents) by the Government Tuberculosis Clinic at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Considering the facilities now available for the early diagnosis of Tuberculosis, one would have expected a much bigger increase in the number of eases of this disease notified during the year. Notifications of Tuberculosis (All Types) 1949 (in Municipal Residents only) Age Groups 0-5 years 5-10 years 10-15 years 15-20 years 20-45 years Over 45 years Ape not stated Total Males .. 134 20 20 118 2,010 812 7 3,121 Females 106 23 19 40 701 231 6 1,126 Total .. 240 43 39 158 2,711 1,043 13 4,247 1 he number ol deaths certified as due to all forms of Tuberculosis w as 1,529 as against 1.654 in 1948. Small-pox, Plague and Cholera There w as no case ol Plague, Cholera or Small-pox during the year. Typhoid Sixty-one cases (—)— 13 in non-residents) were notified during the year as against seventy ( + 30 in non-residents) in 1948. Draft By-laws for the control of the manufacture and sale of ice-cream were under consideration during the year. As ice-cream and ice-cream like products are the most potentially dangerous media through which typhoid infection is likely to be spread on a large scale in Singapore, w e have good reason to hope that, provided these draft by-laws when finalised give sufficient powers to enable us to eliminate completely the manufacture or sale in Singapore, by unlicensed hawkers or other persons, of ice-cream or ice-cream like products which have been manufactured by unsafe methods and under unhygienic conditions, then, the danger of any further large outbreaks of typhoid due to ice-cream, such as we have had in the past, e.g. 736 cases in 1938 will be minimised. Diphtheria Somt -41 < as< > ol Diphtheria in Municipal residents and 46 in non-residentf were notified during the year against 193 and 49 respectively in 1948 and 13] and 39 respectively in 1947,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3175319x_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
