TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1986
+WE ACCEPT THAT OUR INDUSTRIES MUST COMPETE OPENLY IN WORLD MARKETS IN ORDER TO SURVIVE, HE STRESSED.
+OUR RECORD OF FREE AND FAIR TRADE IS FURTHER UNDERLINED BY OUR STRONG PROPERTY, PATENT AND TRADE MARK LAWS WHICH ARE VIGOROUSLY ENFORCED.
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+WHEN GERMANY WISHES TO PROMOTE EXPORTS OF GOODS AND SERVICES TO OVERSEAS MARKETS, IT WILL FIND US A READY PARTNER.+
FOUR NEW CHOLERA CASES CONFIRMED
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FOUR NEW CASES OF CHOLERA WERE CONFIRMED TODAY (TUESDAY)
THIS BRINGS TO 17 THE BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT. NUMBER OF CASES SO FAR THIS YEAR.
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THE FOUR NEW CASES ARE THREE MALES AGED 19, 22 AND 30, AND ONE FEMALE, AGED 18. THREE OF THE PATIENTS LIVE IN KWÙN TONG AND ONE IN KWAÍ CHUNG,
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT REITERATED THAT INOCULATION IS NOT THE MOST EFFECTIVE PUBLIC HEALTH PREVENTIVE MEASURE AGAINST CHOLERA AND THAT PERSONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MEASURE TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF THE DISEASE.
UP TO 4 PM TODAY, A TOTAL OF 22 956 PEOPLE HAD RECEIVED INOCULATIONS AT THE EIGHT INOCULATION CENTRES AND THE PORT HEALTH OFFICES.
THE FOLLOWING IS A BREAKDOWN OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WERE INOCULATED UP TO 4 PM TODAY (YESTERDAY'S FIGURES ARE IN BRACKETS):
SAI YING PUN JOCKEY CLUB CLINIC
SHAU KEI WAN JOCKEY CLUB CLINIC
KWUN TONG JOCKEY CLUB HEALTH CENTRE
YAU MA TEI JOCKEY CLUB POLYCLINIC
LADY TRENCH POLYCLINIC, TSUEN WAN YUEN LONG JOCKEY CLUB HEALTH CENTRE
SHEK WU HUI JOCKEY CLINIC
TAI PO JOCKEY CLUB CLINIC
PORT HEALTH OFFICES
1 640 (1 670)
2 900 (4.000)
4 000 (2 300)
2 760
1 640
(1 823)
(2 436)
2 429
(1 800)
2 700
(850)
2 700 (1 156)
(2 225)
2 187
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