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SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1975
HEALTH REPORT FOR APRIL
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HEALTH RETURNS FOR APRIL ISSUED BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT TODAY SHOW A FURTHER INCREASE IN THE NOTIFICATIONS OF VIRAL HEPATITIS AND A DROP IN THE INCIDENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS AND TYPHOID.
THERE WERE 313 CASES OF VIRAL HEPATITIS NOTIFIED TO THE DEPARTMENT DURING THE MONTH, BUT NO DEATHS WERE RECORDED.
THE INCIDENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS DROPPED FROM 1,104 CASES IN MARCH TO 542 LAST MONTH AND TYPHOID FROM 59 TO 54.
FOR MOST OF THE OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES THERE WERE NO APPRECIABLE VARIATIONS IN THE LEVEL OF NOTIFICATIONS.
THE RECORDS OF DIPHTHERIA AND POLIOMYELITIS SO FAR THIS YEAR ARE CLEAN.
HONG KONG STILL REMAINED FREE FROM CHOLERA AND OTHER QUARANTINABLE DISEASES DURING THE MONTH.
OF THE 45 DEATHS RECORDED IN APRIL, 43 WERE FROM TUBERCULOSIS, ONE WAS FROM CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS AND THE OTHER FROM TETANUS.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT AGAIN STRESSED THAT PERSONAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD HYGIENE IS MOST ESSENTIAL IN PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF GASTRO-INTESTINAL DISEASES WHICH TEND TO BECOME MORE PREVALENT IN THE WARM SEASON.
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