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Saturday, May 27, 1972
MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS
For Week Ended May 6
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Statistics released by the Medical and Health Department for the
week ended May 6 are as follows:
Noticications of infectious cases (previous week's figures in
brackets):- total: 205 cases – amoebiasia 1 (1); bacillary
H
-
8 (4); cerebrospinal meningitis & meningococcal infections 1
dysentery
(nil); chickenpox
-
25 (19); enteric fever (typhoid)
-
17 (13); leprosy
-
2 (nil); tuberculosis -
+
1 (1); measles - 25 (25); ophthalmia neonatorum
123 (187); and whooping cough
Births registered
-
-
2 (nil).
1,427: 328 on Hong Kong Island; 897 in Kowloon
and 202 in the New Territories.
Deaths from all causes
-
350: 104 on Hong Kong Island; 195 in
Kowloon and 51 in the New Territories.
Note to editors:
ISSUE OF SUNDAY D.I.B.
There will be an issue of the Sunday D.I.B. tomorrow. Copies of the D.I.B. will
:
available for collection tomorrow at 3 p.m.
at the G.1.5. Press Room, sixth floor, Beaconsfield house.
Release time: 2.00 p.m.