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Tuesday, August 8, 1972
WEEKLY MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS
Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department
for the week ending on July 22 are as follows:-
Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures
1 (1); bacillary dysentery
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in brackets) -- total 259 (194); amoebiasis
14 (9); cerebrospinal meningitis and meningococcal infections --
chickenpox - 2 (nil); tuberculosis 225 (163); diphtheria
enteric fever (typhoid)
9 (14); enteric fever (paratyphoid)
nil (1);
nil (nil);
1 (nil);
leprosy 5 (1); measles -- 2 (1); ophthalmia neonatorum -- nil (3);
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poliomyelitis
nil (nil); and scarlet fever nil (nil).
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Births - total registered 1557; 369 on Hong Kong Island, 967
in Kowloon, and 221 in the New Territories.
Deaths
331 from all causes; 114 on the Island, 198 in
Kowloon and 19 in the New Territories.
Release time: 6.30 p.m.