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Wednesday, August 2, 1972
MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS
Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department for
the week ending on July 15 are as follows:-
* Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures in
1 (1); bacillary dysentery
brackets) total 194 (150); amoebiasis
cerebrospinal meningitis and meningococcal infections - 1 (nil); chickenpox
9 (4):
nil (1); tuberculosis
163 (131); diphtheria nil (nil); enteric fever
nil (nil); leprosy - one
3 (nil); poliomyelitis
nil
(typhoid) 14 (10); enteric fever (paratyphoid)
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1 (1); ophthalmia neonatorum
nil (nil).
(2); measles
(nil); and scarlet fever
Births
total registered 1,364; 369 on Hong Kong Island, 829 in
Kowloon, and 166 in the New Territories.
* Deaths
442 from all causes; 111 on the Island, 317 in Kowloon
and 14 in the New Territories.
Release time: 8.30 p.m.