TABLE 28
TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDHOOD 1961, 1974 AND 1980 to 1984
TABLE 29
TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFICATIONS 1961, 1974 AND 1980 TO 1984
Percentage?
Year
of newborns receiving BCC
Percentage of Tuberculosis Deaths under
5 years
Percentage of
Tuberculosis Deaths under
Infantile Mortality
from Tuberculosis
Year
Government
Chest Clinics
Other Government Institutions
Tung Wah
Group Hospitals
Other Non- Government
Institutions Total
& Private Sources
Notification Rate per 100 000 population
1 year
(per 1 000
births)
1961
8 957
2 056
947
624
12 584
397.21
1961
77.77
11.48
2.62
0.46
1974
5 522
397
323
2 078
8 320
192.61
1974
95.83
0.82
0.21
0.02
1980
5 228
584
252
2 001
8 065
160.07
1980
99.54@
0.73
0.18
0.01
1981
4 936
472
328
1 993
7 729
149.96
1981
99.53
0.41
1982
4.663
594
314
1 956
7 527
143.84
1982
98.94
0.22
1983
4 509
634
385
1 773
7 301
137.41
1983
99.41
0.45
1984
5.196
506
319
1 822
7 843
146.22
1984
99.91
0.24
0.24
0.01
* Percentage of newborns based on registered birth figures in
1961 and based on known birth figures since 1970.
Figures adjusted after 1981 Census.