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17. The number of cases notified during the year was :-
Bubonic Plague 4 Cholera 3 Small-pox 616 Diphtheria 90 Scarlet Fever 18 Enteric 0 Para-typhoid 21 Typhus 0 Yellow Fever 0 Relapsing Fever 0 Cerebro-Spinal Fever 0 Puerperal fever ... Rabies ...18. Small Pox.-This disease which every year manifests its presence in the cold months by causing sporadic outbreaks but which disappears with the hot weather, this year continued throughout the summer to assume epidemic form in November when 100 cases were notified. In December there were 340 cases. The total cases brought to the notice of the Authorities during the year were 616 of which 304 or 50% died. Of these 126 were treated in the Tung Wah Hospital with a mortality rate of 50% and 15 in the Government Infectious Diseases Hospital with no deaths. The remainder were treated in their own houses, some with the permission of, some without the knowledge of the Sanitary Authorities.
19. After the 1916/1917 epidemic in an attempt to induce the people to notify cases and to stop the practice of dumping their dead in the streets at night, the Sanitary Board with the approval of the then M.O.H. passed the following resolution :—
"That patients suffering from Small-pox be allowed to be treated in their own houses under the following conditions:
(a) That all cases in the District be notified to the Medical Officer of Health.
(b) That all inmates of the house be vaccinated.
(c) That a notice be posted on the door of the house where the patient is being treated”.
The results did not come up to expectations for the populace ignored the so called concession and continued in their practice of concealing cases and dumping corpses.
20. In this epidemic many a case was notified to the M.O.H. for the first time when the Medical Officer in charge of the Mortuary reported the presence of a corpse dead of the disease.
21. In December the Public were reminded of the Board's concession by notices in the Press and the distribution of ...
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17. The number of cases notified during the year was :-
Bubonic Plague
4
Cholera
3
Small-pox
616
Diphtheria
90
Scarlet Fever
Enteric
240
18
0
21
Typhus
Yellow Fever
0
0
20
0
Para-typhoid
Relapsing Fever
Cerebro-Spinal Fever
Puerperal fever
Rabies
18. Small Pox.-This disease which every year manifests its presence in the cold months by causing sporadic outbreaks but which disappears with the hot weather, this year continued throughout the summer to assume epidemie form in November when 100 cases were notified. In December there were 340 cases. The total cases brought to the notice of the Authorities during the year were 616 of which 304 or 50% died. Of these
126 were treated in the Tung Wah Hospital with a mortality rate of 50% and 15 in the Government Infectious Diseases Hospital with no deaths. The remainder were treated in their own houses, some with the permission of, some without the knowledge of the Sanitary Authorities.
19. After the 1916/1917 epidemic in an attempt to induce the people to notify cases and to stop the practice of dumping their dead in the streets at night, the Sanitary Board with the approval of the then M.O.H. passed the following resolution :—
"That patients suffering from Small-pox be allowed to be treated in their own houses under the following condi- tions:
(a) That all cases in the District be notified to the
Medical Officer of Health.
(b) That all inmates of the house be vaccinated.
(c) That a notice be posted on the door of the house
where the patient is being treated”.
The results did not come up to expectations for the populace ignored the so called concession and continued in their practice of concealing cases and dumping corpses.
20. In this epidemic many a case was notified to the M.O.H. for the first time when the Medical Officer in charge of the Mortuary reported the presence of a corpse dead of the disease.
21. In December the Public were reminded of the Board's concession by notices in the Press and the distribution of
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