TABLE 28
TABLE 29
WORK OF TUBERCULOSIS AND CHEST SERVICE 1979
TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFICATIONS 1961, 1969 AND 1975 TO 1979
Total attendances
Total patients attending (old & new) Number of new patients
1,019,863 95,112
51.592
Classification of new patients
Other Non-Gov't
Government
Chest
Year
Other Gov't Institutions
Clinice
Tung Wah
Group Hospitale
Institutions
Total
& Private Sources
Notification Rate per 100,000 population *
I)
N.S.D.# & Unknown
II)
Diseases other than tuberculosis
26,593(55.4) 7.712(14.9)
III) Non-respiratory tuberculosis
335(0.6)
a) Meninges
2(0.004)
1961
8,957
2,056
947
624
12,584
397.2
b) Bones and joints
33(0.06)
c) Others
300(0.58)
1969
8.391
482
299
1,900
11,072
286.5
IV)
Respiratory tuberculosis
1975
4,886
583
254
2,469
8,192
186.4
i) Not active and unknown activity 11) Active
8,628(16.7)
5,887(11.4)
a) By bacteriology and extent
1976
4,684
507
234
2,503
7,928
178.4
Negative
A1
1,642(3.18)
A2
342(0.66)
1977
4,406
409
226
2,070
7,191
159.3
A3
101(0.20)
Positive
B1
1,371(2.66)
1978
3.897
556
244
1.926
6,623
143.8
B2
1.163(2.25)
B3
770(1.49)
1979
4.632
677
281
2,317
7.907
161.4
Incomplete
01
391(0.76)
02
78(0.15)
03
29(0.06)
* Rates for the years 1973 to 1977, based on revised
population estimates after 1976 By-census
b) By previous history and treatment
No previous history of tuberculosis
Previously diagnosed, no treatment
Previously diagnosed, with treatment
Frevious history not known
Total with examination completed
Note: Figures in brackets denote percent of total new patients
# Nil of significance detected
4,382(8.49)
40(0.08)
1,238(2.40)
227(0.44)
51,155(99.2)