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Saturday, October 14, 1972
WEEKLY MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS
Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department
for the week ended on September 30 are as follows:-
Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures
in brackets)
12 (seven); chickenpox one (four); tuberculosis
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total 157 (218); amoebiasis two (nil); bacillary dysentery
126 (187); diphtheria nil (one); enteric fever (typhoid) ten (nine); enteric fever (paratyphoid) -- one (nil); leprosy nil (two); measles -- one (three); ophthalmia
neonatorum one (three); poliomyelitis
nil (one); malaria (fresh case)
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two (nil), and puerperal fever
one (1).
Births
total registered 1,742; 427 on Hong Kong Island,
1,103 in Kowloon, and 212 in the New Territories.
Deaths
482 from all causes; 176 on the Island, 286 in Kowloon
and 20 in the New Territories.
Note to Editors:
ISSUE OF D.I.B. ON MONDAY
There will be an issue of the Daily Information Bulletin on Monday (October 16). A special supplement will also be issued on the same day.
Release time: 2.30 p.m.