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Monday, September 11, 1972
WEEKLY MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS
Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department
for the week ended on August 26, 1972 are as follows:-
in brackets)
*Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures
total 222 (195); amoebiasis nil (2); bacillary dysentery
199 (177); enteric fever (typhoid) 10 (6);
de
7 (7); tuberculosis
leprosy 3 (2); measles
-- 2 (nil) and ophthalmia neonatorum
——
1 (1).
✦ Births -- total registered 1,516; 385 on Hong Kong Island,
935 in Kowloon, and 196 in the New Territories.
Deaths
293 from all causes; 110 on the Island, 174 in
Kowloon and 9 in the New Territories.
Release Time: 7.00 p.m.