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Monday, December 31, 1973
HEALTH REPORT FOR NOVEMBER
There were 129 notifications of measles during November, and
one death, according to the monthly health returns issued by the Medical
and Health Department today.
This compared unfavourably with the 112 cases notified in
October, bringing the total notifications for the first 11 months of the
year to 843, compared with 733 in 1972
Fatalities for the same period totalled 13. Last year, betweon
January and November, there were only nine deaths caused by meanies.
Commenting on these figures, a spokesman for the Medical ani
Health Department urged parents of susceptible children betweo, nine
months and five years to have thea Jarunised.
"Free vaccine is available throughout the year at all naternel
and child health centres," he stresscd.
Of the other 95 deaths recorded during No ember, 94 were caused
by tuberculosis, and one by typhoid,
There were 29 notifications of bacillary dysentery, one of
cerebrospinal meningitis, 23 of chickenpox, 26 of typhoid, and two of
paratyphoid.
Again there were no reports of either diphtheriz or poliomyelitis.
The incidence of other communicable diseases showed no appreciable variation.
During the month, Hong Kong remained free from cholera and other
quarantinable diseases,
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