TABLE 27
TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDHOOD 1956, 1966 and 1972 TO 76
Year
Percentage
Percentage of
of newborns
Tuberculosis
receiving
deaths below
Percentage of Tuberculosis deaths under
B.C.G.
5 years
1 year
1956
24.22
25.00
Infantile Mortality from Tuberculosis (per 1,000
1966
90.22
2.71
0.73
0.12
live Births)
7.34
1.99
1972
96.63
0.30
0.15
0.02
1973
96.87
0.35
0.07
0.01
1974
97.83
0.82
0.21
0.02
1975
98.28
1.39
0.31
0.03
1976
98.33
0.70
Percentage of newborne based on registered birth figures in 1956, 1966, 1972-74 and based on known birth figures since 1975
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1973
* * * *
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TABLE 28
TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFICATIONS 1956, 1966 AND 1972 20 76
Origin
1956
1966
Government Chest Clinics
7,704
8,105
Other Government Institutiona
066
618
1,714
Total
12.155
11,427
8,420
8,152
8,192
385*}.
Notification rate per
464.9
314.8
204.6
193.5
186.4
178.4
Tung Wah Group Hospitals
Other Non-Government
Institutions and Private Sources
100,000 population
• For the years 1972 to 1976, based on revised population estimates after 1976 By-censua