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initial aim of vaccinating all school children. Excellent progress was made with this work and very few school children remained to be vaccinated by December, 1952.
Year
Cases
Deaths
Case fatality rate
1946
2,801
1,818
64.9%
1947
4,855
1,863
38.4%
1948
6,279
1,961
31.2%
1949
7,510
2,611
34.7%
1950
9,067
3,263
36.0%
1951
13,886
4, 190
30.2%
1952
14,821
3,573
24.1%
(i) Malaria.
During 1952, there was a considerable increase in the number of cases of this disease, there being 1,010 cases with 46 deaths as compared with 526 cases and 35 deaths in the previous year. The increased incidence could not be taken to indicate inadequate control measures in the urban areas as in the majority of cases there was a history of exposure to infection in the New Territories, which are outside the controlled
areas.
(j) Rabies.
The recorded incidence of this infection, both in humans and in animals, was much the same as in the previous year. One human and 6 animal cases, all of which were fatal, were notified. The cases all occurred in the New Territories.
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