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FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1988
FIGHT AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS SUCCESSFUL
THE YEAR 1987 MARKED ANOTHER YEAR OF SUCCESS IN THE BATTLE AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND THORACIC
CONTINUING
DISEASES, THE DIRECTOR OF
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES, DR K.L. THONG, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).
SPEAKING
IN
HIS
OF THE
AS PRESIDENT
HONG KONG CAPACITY HEART DISEASES ASSOCIATION AT ITS ANNUAL TUBERCULOSIS, CHEST AND
WAS AT ONE TIME GENERAL MEETING, DR THONG SAID TUBERCULOSIS, WHICH THE NO. 1 KILLER DISEASE IN HONG KONG, HAD BEEN EFFECTIVELY CONTAINED IN THE LAST 10 YEARS AND ITS INCIDENCE CONTINUED TO DROP IN 1987.
DURING THE YEAR, RECORDED, HE SAID.
A TOTAL OF
7,269
NEW
NOTIFICATIONS
WERE
YEAR,
FIGURE IN THE PREVIOUS
THE NOTIFICATION RATE, FROM
COMPARED TO THE CORRESPONDING THIS REPRESENTED A SIGNIFICANT DROP IN 134.3 CASES PER 100,000 POPULATION IN 1986 TO 129.5 IN 1987.
LOW AND WAS AT THE SAME TIME, THE DEATH RATE REMAINED DECLINING, FROM 7.4 PER 100,000 POPULATION IN 1986 TO 7.2 PER POPULATION IN 1987.
FOR
STILL 100,000
ROOM AND CONTROL
DESPITE THE ENCOURAGING SIGNS OF SUCCESS, DR THONG SAW NO
ALL THE COMPLACENCY, NOTING THAT
PREVENTIVE
PROGRAMMES WERE STILL ACTIVELY MAINTAINED.
TUBERCULOSIS WITH THE BRITISH MEDICAL RESEARCH
THE ON
PREVENTION AND CURE OF RESEARCH WORK
BE
VIGOROUSLY PURSUED
COLLABORATION CONTINUES TO CARDIO-THORACIC EPIDEMIOLOGY GROUP OF
IN
THE
COUNCIL.
ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS BOTH NEW AND
"AN IMPORTANT STUDY WAS UNDERWAY TO A D EFFICACY OF CERTAIN NEW DRUGS IN THE TREATMENT OF OLD CASES OF TUBERCULOSIS," HE SAID.
TURNING TO LUNG CANCER, DR THONG SAID DEATHS REPORTED IN 1987, 117 MORE THAN IN 1986.
THAT THERE WERE 2,465
ACCEPTED BY THE HE NOTED THAT SMOKING HAD BEEN WELL PROFESSIONALS AND HEALTH AUTHORITIES ALL OVER THE WORLD AS THE MOST IMPORTANT CAUSE OF PREMATURE DEATH DUE TO LUNG HEART DISEASE AND CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE.
THE GOVERNMENT PLACED HEAVY EMPHASIS ON ANTI-SMOKING PROGRAMMES, DR THONG SAID.
MEDICAL SINGLE
CANCER, CORONARY
HEALTH EDUCATION AND
AND CONTROL, HE WAS
TO A CLEANER
AND
WITH THE SUSTAINED EFFORTS IN EDUCATION
HONG THAT
KONG COULD LOOK FORWARD CONFIDENT HEALTHIER LIVING ENVIRONMENT IN THE FUTURE.
/REFERRING TO
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