TABLE 28
TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFICATIONS 1961, 1967 AND 1973 TO 1977
Goverment Other Gov't
Year
Chest
Institutions
Clinics
Tung Wah
Group Hospitals
Other Non-Gov't Institutions
Total
& Private Sources
Notification Rate per 100,000 population
TABLE 29
WORK OF TUBERCULOSIS AND CHEST SERVICE 1977
Total attendances
Total patients attending (old & new)
Number of new patiente
Classification of new patients
1) ́ N.S.D.# & Unknown
II) Diseases other than tuberculçada
III) Non-respiratory tuberculosis
«) Meninges
b) Bones and joints
o) Others
Respiratory tuberculosis
1) Not active and unknown activity 11) Active
a) By bacteriology and extent
Negative
1961
8.957
2,056
947
624
12,584
397.2
IV)
1967
11,917
1,167
563
1,606
15,253
409.7
1973
5,340
556
226
2,030
8,152
193.5
1974
5,522
397
323
2,078
8,320
192.6
1975
4,886
583
254
2,469
8,192
186.4
1976
4.684
507
234
2,500
7.928
178.4
1977
4,40€
489
226
2,070
7,191
159.3
#
Rates for the years 1973 to 1977, based on revised population estimates after 1976 By-censua
1,159,223
90,368
39,395
20,665 (52.5) 5.925 (15.0)
420 (1.1)
3 (0.01)
7 (0.02)
410 (1.04)
7,115 (18.1) 5,018 (12.7)
1,217 (3.1)
276 (0.7)
A1
A2
A3
62 (0.2)
Positive
B1
1,093 (2.8)
B2
1,139 (2.9)
B3
691 (1.8)
Incomplete
01
406 (1.0)
02
105 (0.3)
03
29 (0.1)
b) By previous history and treatment
No previous history of tuberculosis
Previously diagnosed, no treatment Previously diagnosed, with treatment Previous history not known
Total with examination completed
Note: Figures in brackets denote percent of total new patients
# Nil of significance detected
3,625 (9.2)
46 (0.1)
1,162 (2.9)
185 (0.5)
39,143 (99.4)