It is impossible to give exact figures for the series at this moment but up to midnight on 31.12.50 192 cases of typhoid fever had been treated with chloromycetin and there had been 24 deaths in this group. This gives a mortality rate of 12.5% for the treated cases. I attach little importance to this figure. Chloromycetin is an effective and a specific treatment for the enteric fevers which nevertheless remain a most severe and dangerous group of diseases. Many of the treated patients were admitted as late as the 30th or even 40th day of the disease and had already suffered so much damage that the only cause for surprise is that the total mortality figure is not much higher.
As this is only a preliminary and necessarily brief account of the use of chloromycetin in Hong Kong, it would be out of place to embark on a detailed discussion of bacteriological findings, rates of sterilization of blood and marrow by chloromycetin and so on. One final point, however, is worthy of emphasis and that is that in no single instance have toxic effects, due to chloromycetin, been noted. The drug has done much here to lessen the burden which typhoid fever imposes on the physicians and nurses who tend the disease.
(Sgd.) P. B. WILKINSON,
Medical Specialist.
3. I. 51.
ANNEXURE E.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
1947 to 1950.
Births
Deaths
MONTH
1947
1948
1949
1960
1947
1948
1949
1950
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
www
December
Total
3,413 3,884 4.269 5.112 2,840 3,655
4.126
4.422 2,751 3.674 4,063 4.761 2.819 3.271 3.346 3,027 3.041 3.451 3,010 3,257 3,723 4.004 3.000 4,235 4,870 1.215 1.286 1,597 3,828 4.129 5.038 5.364 1.006 1,283 1,504 4.199 4.617 6,648 5.765
1,089 1.332 4,507 4.433 5.738 5,763 1,035 3.795 4.875 5,656 6.054 4.355 4.730 5.582 5.704
42.473 47.476 54.774 60,600
1.168
1,086
1.240 1.363
1,244
1,096 1,200
1.391
1,278
4,097 1.104
BBT
3,938 1.022 4,750 1.181
979 1.230 1.386
1.226 1.342 1.112 1,194 1.567 1.109 1,388
1.558
1,970
1,570
1.406
1,593
1.164 1,414 1,706
971 983
1.051 1.069
1,416 1,427
1.485 1,592
13.231
13.424
16.287 18,405
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ANNEXURE F.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
Notifications and Deaths-1946 to 1950.
Total No. of deaths at all ages
1948
1947
1948
1949
1950
10
19
10
92
CPE 500
2,422
317
1
77
Z
1.998
Yellow Fever
0
12
4
6I
108'2
—
100
L
0
12
4
1
25
1
214
4,855
10
TE
I
0
態
Q
10
11
7,510
14 9,067
1.306
1.818
129
+
1,863
1,901
2.611
3,263
0
0
306
16
0
0
NO. E:-Malaria not notified after May, 1948 and again notified since 20.6.50.
Whooping Cough and Infantile Paralysis notifiable discasos since 23.10.47 and 30.7.48, respectively,
Total No. of Notifications
Diseases
1946
1947
1948
DÉGI
SPOT
E
71
Dysentery (Bacillary and
1
I