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Tuesday, September 19, 1972
WEEKLY MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS
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Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department
for the week ended on September 2 are as follows:-
Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures
—
13 (7); cerebrospinal
116
in brackets) total 146 (222); bacillary dysentery
meningitis and meningococcal infections 1 (nil); tuberculosis
(199); enteric fever (typhoid) 11 (10); leprosy
nil (2) ophthalmia neonatorum
Birth
4 (3); measles
nil (1); malaria 1 (nil).
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total registered 1585; 393 on Hong Kong Island; 1006
in Kowloon, and 186 in the New Territories.
* Deaths
341 from all causes; 104 on the Island, 223 in
Kowloon and 14 in the New Territories.
Release time: 7.00 p.m.
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