PHOTOGRAPHIC
APPARATUS,
EQUIPMENT,
1
10
MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1984
SUPPLIES
AND OPTICAL
GOODS,
WATCHES AND
CLOCKS
663
529
135
+ 25
MISCELLANEOUS
MANUFACTURED
ARTICLES
573
417
156
+ 37
NON-METALL IC
MINERAL
MANUFACTURES
473
310
+
163
+ 53
PUBLIC URGED TO FIGHT COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
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A SENIOR DOCTOR OF THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT TODAY (MONDAY) CALLED ON THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG TO JOIN IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
DR S.C. LEUNG, COMMUNITY PHYSICIAN OF THE NEW TERRITORIES REGIONAL OFFICE, MADE THE CALL WHEN SHE SPOKE AT THE WEEKLY MEETING OF THE NEW TERRITORIES ROTARY CLUB.
DR LEUNG SAID HONG KONG WAS CONSTANTLY EXPOSED TO VARIOUS FACTORS WHICH COULD CAUSE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
SOME OF THESE FACTORS, SHE SAID, WERE POPULATION DENSITY, CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL.
DR LEUNG SAID THAT IN THE EARLY HALF OF THIS CENTURY, COMMUNICABLE DISEASES WERE RAMPANT.
BUT WITH THE IMPROVEMENT IN SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES, THE INCIDENCE OF THESE DISEASES HAS BEEN GREATLY REDUCED.
+TODAY WE NO LONGER SEE PLAGUE AND SMALLPOX, AND WE ONLY HAVE ISOLATED CASES OF CHOLERA,+ SHE SAID.
MANY INFECTIOUS DISEASES, SUCH AS WHOOPING COUGH, POLIOMYELITIS, DIPHTHERIA, TUBERCULOSIS AND MEASLES, HAD BEEN ERADICATED OR THEIR INCIDENCE DRASTICALLY REDUCED, SHE ADDED.
SHE ATTRIBUTED THESE ACHIEVEMENTS MAINLY TO THE MANY PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMMES CARRIED OUT BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
/ONE IMPORTANT