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TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1975
HEPATITIS CASES CONTINUE TO DECLINE
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THE INCIDENCE OF VIRAL HEPATITIS CONTINUED TO DROP CONSIDERABLY DURING THE PAST FOUR WEEKS,
A TOTAL OF 42 CASES WERE NOTIFIED TO THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT LAST WEEK, COMPARED WITH 51 THE PREVIOUS WEEK AND 61 THE WEEK BEFORE. IT ALSO REPRESENTED A DROP OF ALMOST 50 PER CENT FROM THE 80 CASES NOTIFIED IN THE LAST WEEK OF MAY.
NO DEATHS CAUSED BY THE DISE WERE REPORTED IN THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF JUNE. THERE WERE FIVE DEATHS IN MAY.
THE NUMBER OF VIRAL HEPATITIS CASES SO FAR THIS MONTH STOOD AT 154. THERE WERE 345 CASES IN MAY, 312 IN APRIL AND 160 IN MARCH.
STATISTICAL RETURNS ON OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES FOR THE MONTH OF MAY ALSO SHOWED DECREASES IN THE NOTIFICATION OF TYPHOID, CHICKENPOX AND BACILLARY DYSENTERY, RECORDS OF DIPHTHERIA AND POLIOMYELITIS WERE AGAIN CLEAR.
THERE WERE, HOWEVER, SLIGHT INCREASES IN THE INCIDENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS, FROM 542 TO 556.
OF THE 83 DEATHS RECORDED IN MAY, 78 WERE FROM TUBERCULOSIS AND THE REMAINING FIVE FROM VIRAL HEPATITIS.
HONG KONG STILL REMAINED FREE FROM CHOLERA AND OTHER QUARANTINABLE DISEASES DURING THE MONTH.
FOR MOST OF THE OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES THERE WERE NO APPRECIABLE VARIATIONS IN THE LEVEL OF NOTIFICATIONS.
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