No. Presence of antibodies
Percentage showing
antibodies
TABLE 35
RESPIRATORY VIRUSES 1963
hyluenza Adenowras
Infernee
6
LLJ
33
Respiratory "0"
a_perial
Psittacosis
Fever
Kirund
6
10
33%
55%%
Vaccine Production
249. The Vaccine Laboratory prepared and issued during the year the quantities of vaccine shown in Table 36.
TABLE 36
VACCINE PREPARATION 1963
Prepared during
1963
Issued during 1963
20,130 ml.
19,827 ml.
...
$1,650 ml.
50,400 ml.
39,850 ml.
39,100 ml.
96,000 ml.
KA
ФИЛ
La
2,668,830 ml. 19,3.50 val.
34,950 ml. 2,668,425 ml. 30,850 ml.
Anti-smallpox vaccine
Anti-rabies vaccine 2% Anti-cabies vaccine 4 P Anti-typhoid-paratyphoid vaccine Anti-cholera vaccine Anti-plague vaccine
MAN
IN
4
Post-mortem Examinations
250. Pathologists from the Institute carried out 485 post-mortems at the Queen Mary Hospital and Kowloon Hospital, including medico- legal cases, on patients dying in those hospitals.
251. Technicians from the Institute undertake the routine post- mortem examination for plague of rodents sent to the Public Mortuaries by the Pest Control Unit of the Urban Services Department. Of 129,808 rodents examined, none were found to be infected with Pasteurella Pestis.
Blood Banksy
252. The Blood Donation Centre, maintained by the Hong Kong Branch of the British Red Cross Society on the Hong Kong waterfront, continued to collect and distribute blood to the Blood Banks at the Kowloon, later the Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Mary Hospitals. The laboratory work in connexion with this was undertaken by the Govern- ment Institute of Pathology.
253. Donations of blood received during the year exceeded by some 230 pints the total for 1962. Although the greater part of the blood again came from members of the Armed Services or from visiting Royal Navy and United States warships, there was a further increase in blood
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Jockey Club Rehabilitation Centre, Kowloon opened on 15.8.63,
Robert Black Health Centre, San Po Kong opened on 27.8.63.