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Sudden abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea are the
main symptoms.
Fever may sometimes develop. They may be of any severity from
a slight gastric upset to a severe toxic prostrating illness.
This illness usually involves a large group of persons simultaneously
though it is rarely a fatal disease.
MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS
For Week Ended April 22
Statistics released by the Medical and Health Department for the
week ended April 22 are as follows:
Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures in
brackets) - total 250 (200); amoebiasis - one (one); bacillary dysentery -
five (eleven); chickenpox - 31 (32); enteric fever (typhoid)
nine (12);
leprosy two (nil); measles - 30 (27); ophthalmia neonatorum - two (nil);
and tuberculosis
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170 (116).
Births
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total registered 1,237; 280 on Hong Kong Island, 785
in Kowloon and 172 in the New Territories.
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Deaths 424 from all causes;
118 on Hong Kong Island, 296 in
Kowloon and ten in the New Territories.
Release Time: 6.45 p.m.