- 5! — COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.

The following tables show the total number of cases of communicable diseases notified by hospitals and medical practitioners in the three towns during the year ; the figures for the Rural District are unreliable as they only represent cases notified by the dispensaries at Geili and Gebel Aulia. The more important of these communicable diseases are dealt with separately under their respective headings.

TABLE I.

SHOWING NUMBER OF CASES OF NOTIFIED.

Disease Khartoum j Local Cases Khartoum !

North 1 Local Cases i Omdurman i Local Cases i !!

Total oi Local Oases Rural Dist. Cases imported Oases Relapsed Cases 1 Grand Total Chicken Pox. 4 2 — 6 — 3 — 9 Diphtheria ... 19 19 104 142 — o —-145 Small Pox — — — — — 1 1 Ankylostoma 10 — 1 11 9 1 21 Bilharzia . 22 5 16 43 2 8 — 53 Dysentery, Amoebic... 56 23 137 216 3 23 1 243 Dysentery, Bacillary 36 24 8 68 — 10 5 83 Typhoid Fever 12 13 39 64 — 9 ‘ 73 Kala Azar . 1 _ 1 2 — 6 — 8 Leprosy . 3 5 8 — 6 14 Malaria . 155 112 30 297 1,734 62 1391 3,484 Measles .

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5 41 3 49 ■— 2 — 51 Phlebotomus Fever ... 1 1 — 2 — — — 2 Puerperal Fever 2 4 6 — — — 6 Palm. Tuberculosis... ' 10 i : 8 _ 21 39 3 24 66 ,