STATISTICS OF REPORTABLE DISEASES

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY East Germany
25X1 SUBJECT Statistics of Repprtable Diseases
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The attached statistics were compiled in the DDR Ministry of Health. They are
based on the statistics supplied by individual Land Ministries or Departments
of Health. The Laender receive their statistics from irdividuaZ,.,Kr 4'
2. The statistics are classified as.;rsecret from Land level upwards.
3. The accuracy of the statistics.
(a) The statistics in the Land and Central Ministries are accurate versions
of the reports received by them.
(b) Occasionally, individual doctors may glect to report very light infections,
to avoid the form-filling involved. T ese infections include..
Poliomyelitis. the outbreak this year has been of a particularly mild
form of poliomyelitis, and it is certain that numbers of very mile, infections
have not been reported.
Diphtheria and typhoid: these statistics should be reasonably correct.
Scarlet fever: i'gljt infections are often not reported by individual doctors.
Bearing these considerations in mind, the statistics give a reasonable
picture of health and illness in theii.=R>
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Statistics of Reportable Diseases: March 1952.
-Mecklenburg Brandenburg Saxony
Thueringia S
axony
Anhalt
1. Typhoid .
1
(
16
26
24
10
24
b)1
3
3
3
2. Paratyp#oid:
(a)
15
5
4
7
1
(b)
-
-
-
-
-
3. Dysentery
(a)
2
-
11
5
17
(b)
-
-
-
4. Diphtheria
(a)
31
101
281
107
422
(b)
-
3
9
6
,12
_5. Scarlet Fever
(a) 2
52
319
1295
1237
1610
(b)
-
1
. 4
1
Poliomyelitis
(a)
1
1
-
1
(b)
-
7. Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
(a) 3
04
333.
422
241
1089
(b) -
91
95
180
75
185
8,. Tuberculosis, Cutaneous
(a)
10
1
26
8
24
(b)
-
-
-
-
-
9. Tuberculosis, Other organs
(a) 1
09
82
150
66
140
(b)
9
9
13
3
7
1G. Tubercular Meningitis 2
(a) -
2
9
(b) 1
- 1
-
4
1.
Comment:
d in the month
t
) N
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1
e
ew cases repor
a
(b) = Deaths reported in the month.
2. Comment:
25X1 terms 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Typhus (abdominalis)
6.
Pol(6inyelitis
Paratyphus
7.
Ansteckende Tbc.
Ruhr
8.
Haut Tbc.
Diphtheritis
9.
Tbc.. anderer Organe
Scharlach Fieber
10.
Tbe. Meningitis
East - Totals
Berlin
2 102
33
988
.32
x+888
6
1 4
164 2553
87 713
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1.9 596
6 47
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