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Saturday, August 19, 1972
WEEKLY MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS
Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department for
the week ended August 5, 1972 are as follows:-
Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures in brackets)
total 190 (196); amoebiasis nil (1); bacillary dysentery 7 (8);
cerebrospinal meningitis and meningococcal infections
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nil (1); chickenpox
nil (nil); enteric fever
nil (nil); leprosy nil
nil (1); tuberculosis 174 (174); diphtheria
(typhoid) 5 (6); enteric fever (paratyphoid)
(3); measles 3 (2); ophthalmia neonatorum -- nil (nil); poliomyelitis
nil (nil); and scarlet fever nil (nil).
Births
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total registered 1,587; 388 on Hong Kong Island, 979 in
Kowloon, and 220 in the New Territories.
Deaths 447 from all causes;
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and 11 in the New Territories.
102 on the Island, 334 in Kowloon
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