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SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1974.
INCIDENCE OF MEASLES SHOWS SLIGHT DROP
HEALTH RETURNS FOR MARCH ISSUED TODAY BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT SHOW THAT 13 CHILDREN DIED FROM MEASLES, A SLIGHT INCREASE COMPARED WITH THE 10 DEATHS RECORDED IN FEBRUARY.
BUT NOTIFICATIONS OF MEASLES DURING THE MONTH DROPPED TO
349, COMPARED WITH 367 IN JANUARY AND 384 IN FEBRUARY
COMMENTING ON THESE FIGURES, A SPOKESMAN SAID THEY SHOWED THAT THE CURRENT ANTI-MEASLES CAMPAIGN WAS PRODUCING A SATISFACTORY RESPONSE BUT THERE WAS STILL NO ROOM FOR COMPLACENCY,›
+AS ALREADY ANNOUNCED, THE ANTI-MEASLES CAMPAIGN IS CONTINUING UNTIL THE END OF MAY,+ HE SAID. +FREE VACCINE IS AVAILABLE AT ALL MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTRES, NOT ONLY DURING THIS EXTENDED CAMPAIGN PERIOD, BUT ALSO THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
+PARENTS OF SUSCEPTIBLE CHILDREN BETWEEN SIX MONTHS AND FIVE YEARS SHOULD HAVE THEM LAMUNISED.+
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OF THE 119 OTHER DEATHS RECORDED DURING MARCH 111 WERE CAUSED BY TUBERCULOSIS -- A DROP FROM THE 132 DEATHS FROM THE SAME DISEASE IN FEBRUARY ONE BY AMOEBIASIS, ONE BY BACILLARY DYSENTERY, -TUO BY CHICKENPÓX, ONE BY VIRAL HEPATITIS, AND THREE BY TETANUS.
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THERE WERE 151 NOTIFICATIONS OF CHICKENPOX, A RISE FROM THE 140 CASES RECORDED IN FEBRUARY NOTIFICATIONS OF BACILLARY DYSENTERY DROPPED, FROM THE 25, CASES RECORDED IN THE PREVIOUS MONTH. TỪ 23.
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NO CASES OF 'DIPHTHERIA OR POLIOMYELITIS WERE RECORDED, AND THE INCIDENCE OF OTHER COMMUNICABLE DISEASES SHOWED NO APPRECIABLE, VARIATION.
DURING THE MONTH, HONG KONG REMAINED FREE FROM CHOLERA AND OTHER QUARANTINABLE DISEASES.
CHEUNG SHA WAN ROAD CLEARWAY HOURS REVISED
MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED THAT THE CLEARWAY HOURS ON CHEUNG SHA MAN ROAD BETWEEN NATHAN ROAD AND HING WAH STREET IN KOWLOON WILL BE REVISED FROM 10 A.M. ON TUESDAY CAPRIL 30).
THE NEW CLEARWAY HOURS ON THIS STRETCH OF CHEUNG SHA WAN ROAD WILL BE FROM 7 A.M. TO 10 A.M. AND FROM 4 P.M. TO 7 P.M.
ONLY FRANCHISED BUSES WILL BE PERMITTED TO STOP TO PICK
UP OR SET DOWN PASSENGERS DURING THESE HOURS.
TRAFFIC SIGNS WILL BE POSTED TO INDICATE THE REVISED CLEARWAY
HOURS.
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