Social Sector

Table 137 - Cases and Deaths from Notifiable Diseases

  1994 1995 1996
Disease Notified
Cases
Registered
Deaths
Notified
Cases
Registered
Deaths
Notified
Cases
Registered
Deaths
Plague - - - - - -
Cholera - - - - - -
Small-pox - - - - - -
Diphtheria 17 4 9 2 5 1
Enteric fever 92 18 86 5 165 2
Infectious Hepatitis 993 114 1037 76 796 48
Tuberculosis 36498 8882 38211 9081 40733 10033
Meningococal Meningitis 10 4 6 1 2 3
Typhus - - - - - -
Puerperal fever - - - - - -
Ant. poliomeylitis 209 30 98 10 30 3
Influenza - - - - - -
Viral Encephalitis - - - - - -
AIDS 117 24 6 22 - 54
Scarlet fever - - - - - -
Yellow fever - - - - - -
Relapsing fever - - - - - -
Dengue fever - - - - - -
Gastro enteritis 2263 577 2339 376 2331 289
Cerebro spinal fever - - - - - -

 

  • BMC, statistics show that T.B. (Tuberculosis) is the most predominant disease