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prevalent in this area, and such conditions as diseases of the sweat
glands, dermatitis seborrheica, and molluscum contagiosum. Rates
were much higher in the Saipan and Marshall Istunds districts than
in the Palau district—246.2 and 214.2 per 1,000 inhabitants as compared with 62.9, respectively.
MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES
Prevalence rates for diseases which occurred with greatest frequency
are presented by district in table 19. These diseases were diagnosed!
from the general physical examinations rather than from special tests
and examinations.
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Table 19.
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Morbidity for selected diagnoses
(Prevalence rates per 1,000 examinations)
Total
Saipan district
Palan district
Selected diagnosis
.
Nun ber
Examinations
Dermstopbs tosis
Chronile tonsillitis
and nasopharyngltls
Rate
Number |
22146
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6.61!
296. 5
3,33
Marshall Islands
|
Rate
*
| Sumber
ric
Rate
Number |
Rate
4,999
Co
10, 575
*)
|
6, 572
)
1,899
379.9
2, 683
283.7
1)
2,029
308.7
150. 2
1,433
286.6
555
525
1, 338
203. 6
3H
149, 2
1@31
246.2
665
62.9
1, 408
214.2
2, OST
i. 2
49
89.8
675
63.8
963
146. 5,
1, 363
7G. 6
262
52.4
KO
85.1
401
61,0
pag
784
41.0
35.4
23
H.6
3
519
41.9
49.1
193
m4
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3.5
126
65.2
123
11.6
BB
12.6
325
14.7
oe
12.0
v4
7.0
191
Aw.
l.¢
Diseases of the skin
and cellular tissue ;
Pleryzium
Degenerative joint
disease
Conjuuctivitts
Cataract
Acute respiratory
lnfecuens
Nenpilastic diseases
fofaramastory ulseases
ofesr
-
87
4
is
Ti.
27
9.8
132
36. 4
10
a
75
Opacity of corneas
21)
195
0.5
as
82
101
16. 4
2.2
86
2
&1
26
a
66
10.0
Anemia
185
ad
&
24
4
.4
We
17.8
Vilamin deficiency
6&5
The most prevalent diseases in the Saipan, Palau, and Marshall Islands districts were skin diseases, disenses of the eye, and respiratory
diseases. Leprosy was also of major importance. Other diseases of
wide prevalence were degenerative joint disease, neoplastic diseases,
rickers and vitamin deficiency, anemia, and inflammatory diseases of
the ear. Diseases carried by mosquitoes and other arthropods do not
assume the importance in the trust territory that ts usual in other
tropical areas. Malaria is not an indigenous disease at the present
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