NOTIFIABLE DISEASES – Summary of reported cases, United States, 1961-1970

1970 1969 1968 1967 1966

1964

1963

1962

1961

188,483

185,771

182,992

2,886

3
1,844

47
407

3,048

9
2,654

10
409

2,850

14
5,162

14
636

89
586

99
385,156

2,470

79
590

118
481,530

2,150

Amebiasis
Anthrax
Aseptic meningitis
Botulism
Brucellosis (undulant fever)
Chancroid
Cholera
Diphtheria
Encephalitis, primary
Encephalitis, post-infectious
Gonorrhea
Granuloma inguinale
Hepatitis, serum
Hepatitis, infectious
Leprosy
Leptospirosis
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Malaria
Measles (rubeola)
Meningococcal infections
Mumps
Pertussis (whooping cough)
Plague
Poliomyelitis, total

Paralytic
Psittacosis
Rabies, animal
Rabies, human
Rheumatic fever, acute
Rubella (German measles)
Rubella congenital syndrome
Salmonellosis, excluding typhoid fever
Shigellosis (bacillary dysentery)
Smallpox
Streptococcal sore throat and scarlet fever
Syphilis, primary and secondary

Total, all stages
Tetanus
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis (newly reported active cases)
Tularemia
Typhoid fever
Typhus fever, flea-borne (endemic, murine)
Typhus fever, tick-borne (Rocky Mountain spotted)
Yellow fever

199,399 197,457 195,576 193,526 191,141
3,005 3,157 2,921 2,768 3,304
3
2
5

7
4,494 3,082 3,058 2,329 2,177
7
5
9
19

23
218
265
262
262

411
845
784
838

982 1,247

2
260
219
209
164

293
1,781

1,478 2,121 1,722 2,002
502 1,060

964

981 1,585)
464,543 404,836 351,738 324,925 300,666
156
154
148
155

135
4,829 2,458

1,497)
45,893 38,909 32,859

33,856 37,740
123

81
109
96

97
69
67
72
84

142
485
371
308
878

732
2,317 2,022

565
147

93
22,231 62,705 204,136 261,904 458,083
2,623 2,161 3,381 3,040

2,826
152,209
4,810 9,718 7,717 6,799 13,005
3
3
5

8
53
41
113

72

122
53
40
106

61

106
43
41
50
60

53
3,591 4,481 4,178

4,574 4,780
1
2
1

2
3,470 3,985 4,472 4,998

7,491
49,371 46,888 46,975
14
10

11
16,514 18,120 16,841 17,161 17,144
12,180 13,474 11,888 11,027 12,984

Last documented case occurred in 1949
435,013 453,351 427,752 395,168 402,334

19,019 21,053 21,414 23,338 22,969
96,271 102,581 105,159 112,842 114,325
178
263
235
300

289
77
66
115
199

198
42,623 45,647 47,767 49,016 50,874
186
184
208
264

342
395
396
378
454

501
36
52
33
28

30
298
305
268
281

277 . Last indigenous case reported 1911, last imported 1924

79
3,732

2
7,977

342,161

22,251
124,137

325

208
54,042

327
566

35 216

315,809

21,067
126,245

322

194
53,315

328
608

32
240

338,410

19,851
124,658

379

306
53.726

365
814

46
219

1

Registered deaths, 1961.

Not previously notifiable nationally.

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES - Summary of reported cres, United States, 1961-1960

(Figuras exclude Alaska 1961-1968 and Hawai, 1951-1959.)

176,513
3,508

12

173,320
4,380

16

170,371
5,031

26

167,306 3,689

38

164,308
3,348

39

161,164
3,523

22

158,242
4,444

45

155,687
4,280

47

153,310
3,550

60

179,979
3,424

23
1,593

12
751
1,680

918
2,341
258,933

296
41,666

54

265
23,574

44
83
604

1,211

2,135
214,496

348
14,922

36
47
448

314
16,294

39
55
434

490
31,961

75
24
762

618
50,093

56
48
875

2,355

1,935
238,340

667
33,700

60
42
983
1,310
449,146

5,077
37,129

5
2,960

1,912
244,957

951
17,428

57

62
1,200

7,023
683,077

4,884
45,030

53 835

500

1,352
7,349

57

9
1,300

5,600
530,118

4,164
68,687

1

Amebiasis
Anthrax
Aseptic meningitis
Botulism
Brucellosis (undulant fever)
Chancroid
Cholera
Dengue
Diphtheria
Encephalitis, acute infectious
Gonorrhea
Granuloma inguinale
Hepatitis, infectious and serum
Leprosy
Leptospirosis
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Malaria
Measles (rubeola)
Meningococcal infections
Pertussis (whooping cough)
Plague
Poliomyelitis

Paralytic
Psittacosis
Rabies, human'
Rabies, animal?
Rheumatic fever, acute
Salmonellosis, excluding typhoid fever
Shigellosis
Smallpox
Streptococcal sore throat and scarlet fever
Syphilis, primary and secondary

Total, all stages
Tetanus
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
Typhoid fever
Typhus fever, flea-borne (endemic, murine)
Typhus fever, tick borne (Rocky Mountain spotted)
Yellow fever

5,485 15,140 28,985 38,476
2,499 7,911 13,850 18,308
278
568
334

563
5
10

4

13
4,542

5,681 5,799 7.297
6,427

6,562
6,693
6,704

5,447 5,375
9,822 10,306 13,912 13,846

Last documented case occurred in 1949.
226,973 176,392 147,502 147,785
6,576 6,392

6,454

7,147
123,758 30,201 122,392 130,697
447
468
462

524
178
262
264

277
67.149 69,895 77,368 79,775
601
522
584

681
1,231 1,700 1,704 2,169
113

98
135

163
240
293
295

294
Last indigenous case reported 1911; last imported, 1924

3

8,637
148,573

506

395
84,304

601
2,252

221
313

10,449
167,762

484

367
86,700

668
2,341

205
327

14,485
174,924

506

393
118,491

702
2,128

378
347

587
1,043

71
243

1

*Not previously notifiable nationally.

Registered deaths. 2 Data from Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1950-1951. includes newly reported active and inactive cases 1951; new active cases, 1952-1960.

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES – Summary of reported cases, United States, 1941-1950

46
7,969

903
317,950

26
5,796

1,135
286,746

1,783
2,820

44

30
1,427

2,184
319,124

3,788
120,718

3

2,402
2,027

41

17
1,925

4,151
625,281

3,519
69,479

3

Cholera
Dengue
Diphtheria
Encephalitis, acute infectious
Gonorrhea'
Granuloma inguinale!
Hepatitis, infectious
Leprosy
Leptospirosis
Lymphogranuloma venereum!
Malaria
Measles
Meningococcal infections
Pertussis (whooping cough)
Plague
Poliomyelitis, acute
Psittacosis
Rabies, human?
Rabies, animal
Rheumatic fever
Salmonellosis
Shigellosis (bacillary dysentery)
Smallpox
Streptococcal sore throat and scarlet fever
Syphilis, primary and secondary

Total, all stages
Tetanus
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
Typhoid fevers
Typhus fever, flea-borne (endemic, murine)
Typhus fever, tick-borne (Rocky Mountain spotted)
Yellow fever

2,593
54,554
633,627

18,223
191,890

1
12,450

1

47
9,649

68,074
894,134

2,006
222,202

2

60,077
547,413

3,823
191,383

1
4,167

23

36
7,137

24
35
40
106

61
9,493 12,262 16,354 18,675 14,150
730
785
728
785

788
345,501 380,666 368,020 287,181 300,676
2,469
2,330
2,232
1,857

1,759
709

NA.
63

561 431 401 37 1
18

NA.
2,429 2,526
2,603 2,631

2,858
9.606 15,116 48,610 62,763 57,626
615,104 222,375 695,843 146,013 630,291
3,376 3,420

5,693 8,208 16,312
74,715 156,517 109,860 133,792 109,873
1

1
27,726 10,827 25,698 13,624 19,029
32
27
26
27

6
24
26
34
43

56 8,495 8,920 10,850 9,928 10,487

NA

NA
23,753 17,048 24,286 34,943 38,230
57
176
337
346

397
91,295 93,595 125,511 185,570 200,539
68,174 93,545 94,957 77,007 78,443
314,313 355,592 363,647 359,114 467,755
601
560

ΝΑ.
487
451

ΝΑ.
137,006 134,946 119,256 14,931 126,294
1,086 1,401

1,355
900

781
2,840
3,075

3,268 4,211 4,599 1,171 2,050 3,365 5,183

5,401
547
596
587
472

470
. Last indigenous case reported 1911; last imported, 1924

33,300

26

18
7,901

42,033

35

10
7,587

9,086

11

39 7,847

1,233
23,367

64,494
23,939
217,558

486

327
121,742

927
2,484

29,080

49
87,220
41,942
256,463

579

353
134,865

1,179
2,795

985
570

685
464

2,784

516

1

Data reported for fiscal years 1941-1946; calendar years 1947-1950. 2 Registered deaths. 'Data from Bureau of Animal Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Administration.

includes newly reported active and inactive cases. Sincludes cases of paratyphoid for 1941.

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES – Summary of reported cases, United States, 1931-1940 1940 1939 1938 1937 1936

1934

U.S. total resident population, July 1 estimate

(in thousands)
Amebiasis
Anthrax
Botulism
Brucellosis (undulant fever)
Chancroid
Cholera
Dengue
Diphtheria
Encephalitis, acute infectious
Gonorrhea
Granuloma inguinale
Hepatitis, infectious
Leprosy
Leptospirosis
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Malaria
Measles
Meningococcal infections
Pertussis (whooping cough)
Plague
Poliomyelitis, acute
Psittacosis
Rabies, human
Rabies, animal
Rheumatic fever
Salmonellosis
Shigellosis (bacillary dysentery)
Smallpox
Streptococcal sore throat and scarlet fever
Syphilis

Total, all stages
Tetanus
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
Typhoid fevers
Typhus fever, flea-borne (endemic, murine)
Typhus fever, tick-borne (Rocky Mountain spotted)
Yellow fever

Data reported for fiscal years,
Registered deaths.

Date from Bureau of Animal Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Administration.
* Includes newly reported active and inactive cases.
* Includes cases of Daratyphoid.