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INFANT AND NEO-NATAL MORTALITY 1924 - 1968
28% in 1968. In the latter disease groups the proportion of deaths has risen from 15.3% to 44.2% over the same period.
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MAJOR TRENDS IN MORTALITY
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Maternal Mortality
11. Here also the statistics pertaining to Hong Kong have attained the standards prevailing in the technically advanced countries of the world. During recent years great improvements in mortality have been obtained from toxaemia of pregnancy, bacmorrhage and puerperal sepsis. There has been some reduction in mortality from abortion and ectopic pregnancy and deaths attributed to other diseases occurring during pregnancy or childbirth have also decreased in numbers,
General Mortality
12. The marked social and economic changes which have occurred in Hong Kong during the years following the Second World War are reflected in the mortality trends and patterns shown in Figure 3. Improvements in the general level of public health are demonstrated by the decline in proportionate mortality from infectious, respiratory and intestinal diseases, while the ageing of a relatively young population is reflected by the increasing mortality from diseases of the heart and circulatory system from neoplastic diseases and from diseases of the nervous system. Fifteen years ago deaths from the former disease groups comprised 59.5% of total deaths. The proportion has fallen to
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13. The leading causes of death were cancer, diseases of the heart and cerebro-vascular accidents, followed by pneumonia, tuberculosis and all accidents. Deaths from cancer of the lung continued to increase accounting for 18.7% of all cancer deaths in the age group between 40 and 69. They accounted for 8.9% of all cancer deaths in this age group in 1953.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
(See tables 13-16
14. The total number of notifications of communicable diseases during 1968 was 14,000, of which tuberculosis formed 69.9%. Satis- factory progress continued to be made in the control of diphtheria and poliomyelitis. The incidence of bacillary dysentery rose slightly for the third year in succession and the incidence of enteric fever showed little tendency to decline. Trends in the incidence of these four diseases are shown in Figure 4. The epidemic of measles which was expected in the winter of 1968-69 was prevented by the use of measles vaccine. The Colony remain free from Cholera and other quarantinable disease.
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