151
56
Influenza.
The deaths registered during 1926 as caused by this disease number 33, this being the smallest number of deaths ascribed to this disease for the last nine years.
The following table shows the numbers of deaths due to Influenza for each month since the year 1918.
Month.
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
January February March..
April
May June
July.
August
September...
October
November.
December...
21 39 20
13
16 118 19 13 6
13
25 75 20
0 41. 38 22 18 5
75
32 27 13 7
108 137 61 20 44 13
10
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77
BOERNENIAISI
22
54 40 14
30 14 30 30 5
30 28
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40 11
8 44 13: 64 7
نا
35 27 76 2 2. 34 17 58
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1925
To tú CONA O CA50-10
Total..
405 449 542 303 422 83 · 52 · 45 38
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The incidence of these diseases was slight during 1926, the total number of cases notified being only 375.
Many of these were imported, the local cases amounting only to 325. Of these local cases 174 were Typhoid and Paratyphoid cases. For the third year in succession there were no cases of plague.
The following table shows, besides the total cases of these diseases, the numbers of cases which were of local origin, imported and brought from the New Territory for the Chinese and Non-Chinese sections of the community.
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9661
The following table shows the notifiable diseases registered during 1926. The by-laws governing Notification
of Infectious disease do not apply to the New Territory other than New Kowloon but a few cases which have been notified are known to have come during illness from such New Territory.
OON
- 57 -
20
-
Mo.......ANNO
Chinese Cases
Non-Chinese Cases
Local Cases
Disease
Total
Cases
Imported
N.T.
Imported
N.T.
Chinese
Non-Chinese
anЯrld
සය.
COHO 10000 C
Small-pox
Cholera
........................
Cerebro Spinal Fever
Enteric Fever
Paratyphoid
Diphtheria
Puerperal Fever
Relapsing Fever
Scarlet Fever
Typhus Fever
Y
Fever
Rabies (Men) Rabies (Dogs)
0
0
1 000
0
Total.
375
35
7
15
0
0
1
278
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40
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