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(5) Deaths from Notifiable Infectious Diseases in the year 1928.
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(a) The Zymotic Death rate was only 4.5 in spite of a severe epidemic of Small-pox.
The following table shows deaths from notifiable diseases (1928).
Disease. Chinese. Non-Chinese. Totals. 1. Small pox 303 1 304 2. Typhoid 72 2 74 Paratyphoid 1 0 1 3. Diphtheria 26 1 27 4. Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 13 3 16 5. Puerperal Fever 13 2 15 6. Plague 2 0 2 Grand Totals 430 9 439These are set out in descending order of incidence, the three most serious having been Small pox, Typhoid and Diphtheria.
The large number of Small-pox deaths (mostly 'dumped') was due to a severe epidemic which reached its height early in 1929 and will be reported, separately, elsewhere.* There were only 126 deaths from this disease the previous year. Further details of the notifiable diseases will be found in another section of this Report.
Report on Small-pox Epidemic, 1928-29, Hong Kong" (H. A. Fawcett).