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SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1975
HEALTH REPORT FOR FEBRUARY
CONTINUING FALL IN INCIDENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS
HEALTH RETURNS FOR FEBRUARY ISSUED TODAY BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT SHOW A CONTINUING FALL IN THE INCIDENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS.
IN JANUARY, REPORTED CASES OF THE DISEASE TOTALLED 630, BUT NOTIFICATIONS WERE REDUCED TO 570 LAST MONTH. BACILLARY DYSENTERY CASES ALSO DROPPED FROM THE PREVIOUS MONTU'S 42 TO 23.
THERE WERE INCREASES IN INCIDENCE OF CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES. NOTIFICATIONS OF TYPHOID ROSE FROM 41 TO 69, VIRAL HEPATITIS FROM 63 TO 89, AND CHICKENPOX FROM 75 TO 09.
AS FOR OTHER NOTIFIABLE DISEASES, THERE WERE EIGHT CASES OF MEASLES, ONE OF CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS, FIVE OF AMOEBIASIS, NINE OF FOOD POISONING, SEVEN OF SCARLET FEVER, FOUR OF TETAÑUS, AND ONE IMPORTED CASE OF MALARIA,
OF THE 62 DEATHS REPORTED DURING FEBRUARY, 59 WERE CAUSED BY TUBERCULOSIS →→→ A DROP FROM THE 67 DEATUS RECORDED IN JANUARY AND FOUR DY VIRAL HEPATITIS.
THE RECORDS OF DIPHTHERIA AND POLIOMYELITIS WERE AGAIN CLEAN. 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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GROWN LAND SALE ####
THREE LOTS OF CROWN LAND WITH A TOTAL AREA OF MORE THAN 50,000 SQ.FT. WILL BE PUT ON SALE BY AUCTION NEXT MONTH.
TWO OF THEM ONE SITUATED AT CHUNG HOM KOK ROAD, HONG KONG AND THE OTHER AT MARCONI ROAD, KOWLOON WILL BE SOLD FOR PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.
THE LOT AT CHUNG HOM KOK ROAD HAS AN AREA OF 21,170 SQ.FT. AND THE ONE AT MARCONI ROAD HAS AN AREA OF 10,200 SQ.FT.
IS FOR THE REMAINING LOT WITH AN AREA OF 10,670 SQ.FT. INDUSTRIAL AND/OR GODOWN DEVELOPMENT. IT IS LOCATED BETWEEN CHEUNG SHA WAN ROAD AND LAI CHI KOK ROAD, KOWLOON.
THE AUCTION WILL TAKE PLACE AT 2.30 P.M. ON APRIL 10 IN THE CITY HALL LECTURE ROOM.
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