Calcutta, Jan.18 :    Calcutta, Jan.18:  The CMC and the state health department are on a collision course over malarial death figures in the city. The 12-member malaria advisory committee, comprising state and Central government health officials, at a meeting on Monday, admitted that the civic health department had succeeded in curbing malaria in the city by 60 per cent till October this year. But the figures for the last two months have stirred up a controversy. The government has yet to process the data for November and December. But a deputy director of the state health department, who attended the meeting, claimed that if the malarial deaths in November and December were included, the death toll this year might surpass that of last year's. Mayor Subrata Mukherjee said the CPM is out to undermine the 'spectacular achievement of the Trinamul-BJP board in controlling malaria.' He added: 'The malaria death toll this year till October was only 25, against corresponding figures of 53 and 64, respectively, in 1998 and 1999. The CPM is fabricating data as the party thinks the CMC's success will weigh for the Trinamul Congress in the impending Assembly elections,' the mayor said. The CMC will demand names and addresses of victims, who died in November-December, from the state health department, he added. Member (mayor-in-council), health, Javed Ahmed Khan has directed all borough executive health officers to check their respective data for the two months. Malaria breaks out in April and peaks post-monsoon in August and September. This year, the incidence of malaria in the peak period was the lowest in the past five years, chief municipal health officer Sujit Ghosh said. Refuting the claim of the state official, that about 16 deaths occurred due to infection by the plasmodium vivax parasite, Ghosh pointed out that a malaria patient could not die of vivax infection. Khan pointed out that the month-wise malarial statistics showed a steep upward trend over the previous year till June, when the Trinamul-BJP board came to power in the CMC. But by September-October, the malaria graph dipped by about 60 per cent over the last year.