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| The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998 |
| Table 2D2 Selected notifiable diseases, confirmed notifications, 1993-19981 |
Disease |
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
19983 |
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All ages2 |
Under 1 |
1-4 |
5-14 |
15 and over |
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| Bacilliary dysentery 4 | 607 |
446 |
575 |
176 5 |
124 |
1 |
17 |
8 |
98 |
34 |
| Chickenpox 6 | 40,173 |
32,851 |
31,238 |
28,509 |
33,413 |
2,103 |
15,646 |
10,314 |
4,930 |
18,828 |
| Creuzfeld Jacob (CJD) 7 | ||||||||||
| Referral | 10 |
18 |
6 |
14 |
18 |
- |
- |
- |
18 |
.. |
| Deaths | 7 |
4 |
3 |
5 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
6 |
.. |
| Erysipelas | 130 |
118 |
125 |
84 |
95 |
1 |
4 |
9 |
81 |
35 |
| Food poisoning 8 | 7,170 |
8,291 |
9,297 |
10,234 |
10,144 |
268 |
1,170 |
961 |
7,718 |
4,102 |
| Malaria | 75 |
74 |
58 |
70 5 |
57 |
- |
353 |
2 |
53 |
24 |
| Measles | 1,911 |
6,192 |
1,307 |
1,055 |
762 |
194 |
353 |
160 |
50 |
423 |
| Meningococcal infection | 207 |
201 |
190 |
201 |
271 |
59 |
75 |
47 |
89 |
187 |
| Mumps 6 | 458 |
546 |
371 |
368 |
282 |
5 |
76 |
109 |
88 |
125 |
| Poliomyelitis acute 9 | - |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Rubella 6 | 2,048 |
2,916 |
1,258 |
2,449 |
818 |
201 |
372 |
182 |
54 |
424 |
| Scarlet fever | 911 |
1,319 |
1,065 |
750 |
645 |
13 |
248 |
280 |
94 |
662 |
| TB Respiratory | 452 |
431 |
380 |
406 |
335 |
1 |
6 |
14 |
314 |
194 |
| TB Non-respiratory | 102 |
115 |
98 |
103 |
98 |
- |
- |
- |
98 |
50 |
| Viral hepatitis | 290 |
296 |
405 |
360 |
359 |
1 |
3 |
12 |
340 |
223 |
| Whooping cough | 493 |
639 |
399 |
186 |
545 |
80 |
117 |
216 |
129 |
147 |
Sources: ISD
Scotland Common Services Agency |
| 1 Confirmed notifications; adjusted for cases where a revised diagnosis is subsequently received. |
| 2 Includes notifications where age was not known. |
| 3 Figures for 1998 are provisional and as at 30 June. |
| 4 Prior to 1988 cases are confirmed notifications of dysentery. |
| 5 Revised. |
| 6 Notifiable nationally from 1 October 1988. |
| 7 CJD is not a nationally notifiable disease. The figures shown relate to the number of definite and probable cases leading to death and to the number of referrals of suspected cases of CJD. |
| 8 Includes notifications of campylobacter. |
| 9 The cases shown are currently undergoing confirmation. |
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