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ONE DEATH FROM MEASLES IN JULY
Wednesday, August 23, 1972
Monthly health statistics for July released today by the Medical and
Health Department showed there was one death from measles.
A spokesman said the death supported the department's reason for the
current tampaign. This was to help educate the public on measles' prevention
by the immunisation of susceptible children between nine months and five years.
Free measles vaccine is available at. all government maternal and child
health centres. During the campaign, special inoculation teams are on duty at
various street corners, and health education vans keep appointed dates in all
resettlement and housing estates.
During July, a drop was recorded in the number of notifiable infectious
diseases, which totalled 837 compared with 1,088 in the previous month.
No cases of diphtheria, poliomyelitis or puerperal fever were recorded.
and Hong Kong remained free from cholera and other quarantinable diseases.
There was a slight increase in tuberculosis notifications, from June's
627 to 730 in July.
The spokesman said the increase was not thought to be significant.
There was, for example, a decrease of 199 cases compared with the total of
notifications in July last year.
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