TABLE 20

TUBERCULOSIS MORTALITY 1956 AND 1961-70

Tuberculosis Death Rate

Total Deaths

Year

per 100,000

from Tuberculosis

population

Average age al death from Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis Deaths as percentage of

Total deaths

1956

2,629

107.7

13,6

1961

1,907

60.2*

10.2

1962

1,881

57.1"

9.2

46

1963

1,762

$1.6"

8.9

***

1964

1441

41.2*

7.9

42

1965

1,278

35.6*

7.2

49

1966

1,515

41.9*

8.1

53

1967

1,493

40.3*

7.6

55

1968

1,483

39.2*

7.7

$6.5

1969

1,470

38.2*

7.9

56

1970

1,436

36.4*

4.9

$7.5

TABLE 22

TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFICATIONS 1956, 1961 AND 1966–70.

1956 1961 1966 1967

1966 1969

1970

Govt. Chest

Clinics Other Govt.

32

Origin of Notifica- tion

7,704 8,957

1,643 2,056

8,105 | 11,917 | 6,844 8,391 7,051

990 1.167 63.8 482 494

947 618

563 309 299 443

43

2,808

Inst. Tung Wah Group Other Non-

Govt, Inst and Private Sources

Total

Notification rate per

Так

100,000 population

624 1,714 1,506 1,951 1,900 2,079

12,155) 12,384 | 11,427 |15,253 9,792 11,072 10,077

488 397* 316* 411* 259* 298* 256*

*Based on provisional revisad population after 1971 census nad subject to zavisido later.

* Bused on provislomally revised population efter 1971 census & subject to revilslon, laver.

TABLE 21

TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDHOOD 1956 AND 1961–70

TABLE 23

WORK OF GOVERNMENT CHEST SERVICE

GOVERNMENT CHEST CLINICS

Percentage of

newborns

Percentage of

receiving

Percentage of Tuberculosis deaths below

Percentage of Tuberculosis deaths under

Infantile

Mortality from Tuberculosis

B.C.G.

$ years

1 year

(per 1,000 live Births)

1970

Hong Kong

Kowloon

Full-time Centres...Wan Chai

New Territories

1956

24.31

25.0

7.34

1.99

1961

79.31

11.48

2.62

0.45

1962

81.59

Part-time Centre

1

5.74

1.43

0.24

1963

83.44

5.50

1.08

0.16

1964

86.40

4.09

0.90

0.12

1965

91.65

3.36

0.70

0.09

1966

940.22

2.71

0.73

0.12

1967

MLL

95.42

2.01

0.33

0.07

1968

94.23

1,15

0,20

0.04

1969

94.78

0.95

0.27

0.05

1970

95.33

Arr

0.63

0.00

0.00

Chest Clinic Sai Ying Pun

Chest Clinic Shau Kei Wan Chest Clinic ...Aberdeen J.C.C.

|Kowloon Chest

Clinic

Shek Kip Mel Chest Clinic Yau Ma Ti

Chest Clinic

Robert Black Castle Peak Clinic

Health Centre Kam Tin Clinic

Kwun Tong Lady Trench Polyclinic

Jockey Club

Sai Kung Dispensary

Health Centre,Sha Tin Clinic

Shek Wu Hut J.C.C.

St. John Hospital

Tai Po J.C.C.

Yuen Long Jockey Club

Health Centre

84

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