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The rat population index (number of rats caught per hundred traps set) is about 12.
These figures for the year 1928 gave the following results :
Total number of Rats and Mice destroyed in the Colony during the year 1928-155,572. (Hong Kong, 95,312; and Kowloon, 60,260.)
Of these, none was reported from the mortuaries Plague-infected.
(12) Other Notifiable Diseases.
No cases of the following diseases were notified during 1928; Cholera; Scarlet Fever; Relapsing Fever; Typhus Fever; Yellow Fever and Rabies.
As regards Cholera it is not clear why no cases are reported here; the disease occurs regularly in neighbouring countries.
Rabies is a constant danger (one human case and seven canine occurred in 1927) and, although a Muzzling Order is in force on the Island and all cases of dog-bite reported and watched, these regulations need to be more stringent in the Rural Areas.
At the end will be found a long list of Causes of death in the Colony for 1928 with details for districts and age-groups.
Hong Kong, May, 1929.
HUGH A. FAWCETT,
Medical Officer of Health.
M 169
The rat population index (number of rats caught per hundred traps set) is about 12.
These figures for the year 1928 gave the following results :
Total number of Rats and Mice destroyed in the Colony during the year 1928-155,572. (Hong Kong, 95,312; and Kowloon, 60,266.)
Of these, none was reported from the mortuaries Plague-infected.
(12) Other Notifiable Diseases.
No cases of the following diseases were notified during 1928; Cholera; Scarlet Fever; Relapsing Fever; Typhus Fever; Yellow Fever and Rabies.
As regards Cholera it is not clear why no cases are reported here; the disease occurs regularly in neighbouring countries.
Rabies is a constant danger (one human case and seven canine occurred in 1927) and, although a Muzzling Order is in force on the Island and all cases of dog-bite reported and watched, these regulations need to be more stringent in the Rural Areas.
At the end will be found a long list of Causes of death in the Colony for 1928 with details for districts and age-groups.
Hong Kong, May, 1929.
HUGH A. FAWCETT,
Medical Officer of Health.
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