Year in Review: Infectious Disease Surveillance, 1998

Abstract

In this edition of the Bulletin, we review the trends in reports of notifiable diseases received by the NSW Department of Health for 1998. Readers interested in the details of specific diseases should peruse Tables 3 to 6 for breakdowns of the disease reports by year, month, area of residence, age group and sex. Due to a recent extensive review of the data, which led to the removal of duplicated information, case numbers for some conditions may be lower than those reported in previous publications.