Report of the Ministry of Health / Colony of Singapore.

Singapore. Ministry of Health.

Date:: [1960]

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the Ministry of Health / Colony of Singapore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Pulau Seking was a typhoid carrier. This particular person transported fish to Pulau Bukom Besar Market where they were sold. There were six cases confined around the carrier’s house in Pulau Seking. He has since been confirmed by Middleton Hospital as a carrier and has been excluded from handling food. Leprosy There has been a progressive decline of this disease over the past few years. Poliomyelitis There were 70 cases notified in 1960 as compared with 34 in 1959. This disease continues to be an endemic disease in Singapore.