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SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1974
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HEALTH REPORT FOR FEBRUARY
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HEALTH RETURNS FOR FEBRUARY ISSUED TODAY BY THE MEDICAL
AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT SHOW THAT 10 CHILDREN DIED FROM MEASLES,
A SLIGHT DROP COMPARED WITH THE 11 DEATHS RECORDED IN JANUARY.
NOTIFICATIONS OF NEASLES DURING THE MONTH ROSE TO 384,
COMPARED WITH 367 IN JANUARY, AND 191 IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR.
COMMENTING ON THESE FIGURES, A SPOKESMAN SAID THEY
EMPHASISED THE NEED FOR PARENTS OF SUSCEPTIBLE CHILDREN BETWEEN
SIX MONTHS AND FIVE YEARS TO HAVE THEM IMMUNISED.
+AS ALREADY ANNOUNCED, THE ANTI-NEASLES CAMPAIGN IS
CONTINUING UNTIL THE END OF MAY, HE STRESSED. +FREE VACCINE
IS AVAILABLE AT ALL MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTRES, NOT
ONLY DURING THIS EXTENDED CAMPAIGN PERIOD, BUT ALSO THROUGHOUT
THE YEAR.+
OF THE 135 OTHER DEATHS RECORDED DURING FEBRUARY, 132
WERE CAUSED BY TUBERCULOSIS, ONE BY AMOEBIASIS, ONE BY CHICKEN-
POX AND ONE BY TETANUS.
THERE WERE 140 NOTIFICATIONS OF CHICKENPOX, A RISE FROM
THE 97 CASES RECORDED IN JANUARY. NOTIFICATIONS OF BACILLARY DYSENTERY ALSO INCREASED FROM 18 IN THE PREVIOUS MONTH TO 25.
NO CASES OF DIPHTHERIA OR POLIOMYELITIS WERE RECORDED,
AND THE INCIDENCE OF THE OTHER COMMUNICABLE DISEASES SHOWED NO
APPRECIABLE VARIATION.
DURING THE MONTH, HONG KONG REMAINED FREE FROM CHOLERA
AND OTHER QUARANTINABLE DISEASES.