13.17 Prevalence of Morbidity Among Population of All Ages from the Selected Diseases per 1000 Population During Mid April 1997 to Mid July 1997
Selected diseases		Both sex	Male	Female
1.	Most common diseases
	Total	105.25	107.13	103.26
	Fever/FUO	18.48	18.23	18.76
	Malaria	4.57	4.88	4.24
	Typhoid	1.93	2.08	1.77
	Scabies	1.42	1.64	1.20
	Malnutrition/Anaemia	3.32	2.42	4.27
	Diarrhoea	9.12	9.56	8.66
	Dysentery	5.99	5.97	6.01
	Dyspepsia/Gastritis/Peptic
	ulcer	10.81	10.51	11.12
	Influenza	15.80	16.35	15.21
	Common cold/URI	16.15	17.13	15.10
	Acute cough/Bronchitis	5.01	5.90	4.06
	Asthma	3.80	4.57	2.97
	Waist pain	2.23	1.88	2.61
	High blood pressure	3.72	3.28	4.20
	Gout	2.90	2.73	3.08
2.	Reproductive morbidity (15-49) *
	Total	-	-	1.56
	Normal delivery	-	-	0.11
	Pregnancy with acute problems	-	-	0.11
	Abortion	-	-	0.14
	Delivery with problems	-	-	0.07
	Bleeding after delivery	-	-	0.11
	Bleeding at delivery	-	-	0.04
	Suteka	-	-	0.40
	Malnutrition/Anaemia	-	-	0.58
3.	Immunizable diseases
	Total	2.76	2.76	2.75
	Measles	1.65	1.77	1.52
	Poliomyelitis	0.11	0.07	0.14
	Tetanus	0.14	0.10	0.18
	Whooping cough	0.47	0.48	0.47
	Tuberculosis	0.39	0.34	0.43
	Diphtheria	-	-	-
4.	Other diseases	30.97	29.84	30.60
	All diseases	139.89	139.73	138.19
* Includes females aged<15 and 50+,FUO=Fever of unknown origin, ARI=Acute respiratory infection, APH=Ante purtum haemorrhage, PPH=Post purtum haemorrahage.
Source: Health and Demographic Survey, July 1998, BBS