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104. The notifiable diseases are Plague, Cholera, Smallpox, Yellow Fever, Typhus Fever, Cerebro-Spinal Fever, Enteric Fever, Para-typhoid Fever, Relapsing Fever, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Puerperal Fever and Rabies (human and animal).
105. Responsibility for reporting a case of notifiable disease lies with the legally qualified medical practitioner attending a case, or, in the absence of such, on the occupier or keeper of the premises or on the nearest male relative living on the premises, or in default of such relative on any person in charge of or in attendance on the sick person. Reports are to be made to the Medical Officer of Health or to the Officer in charge of the nearest Police Station.
106. In actual fact practically the only reports received by the Medical Officer of Health are those:
(a) from qualified medical practitioners.
(b) from the Medical Officer in charge of hospitals.
(c) from the Medical Officers in charge of the Public Mortuaries where bodies have been taken for inspection and disposal.
107. The Health Authorities when they do discover a case of infectious disease have no power to remove it to hospital unless the patient or his guardian consents, or unless a Magistrate makes an order for removal.
TUBERCULOSIS.
108. Pulmonary Tuberculosis ranks second to broncho-pneumonia as the principal cause of death. The total number of deaths was 2,225, that for 1932 being 2,042. The death rate per mille was 2.71 as compared with 2.52 for the previous year. Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the majority of cases is a disease which unfits the individual for the active exercise of the employment months or even years before death supervenes. Because of the tendency of those unable to work and earn a living, to leave Hong Kong for their villages in China, the deaths reported form an incomplete index of the prevalence of the disease.
109. The number of cases showing clinical symptoms is unknown but reckoning 10 for each death the total comes to over 20,000.
110. As it is a habit of the working classes to expectorate freely without taking precautions the risks of spread of infection are such that few can escape. Fortunately the natural resistance of the ordinary individual to invasion by the tubercle bacillus is such, that given a sufficiency of proper food and fresh air, he can and more often than not does, wage a winning fight against the invader. It is probable that the great majority of those living in the urban districts have at some time been infected.
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104. The notifiable diseases are Plague, Cholera, Smallpox, Yellow Fever, Typhus Fever, Cerebro-Spinal Fever, Enteric Fever, Para-typhoid Fever, Relapsing Fever, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Puerperal Fever and Rabies (human and animal).
105. Responsibility for reporting a case of notifiable disease lies with the legally qualified medical practitioner attending a case, or, in the absence of such, on the occupier or keeper of the premises or on the nearest male relative living on the pre- mises, or in default of such relative on any person in charge of or in attendance on the sick person. Reports are to be made to the Medical Officer of Health or to the Officer in charge of the nearest Police Station.
106. In actual fact practically the only reports received by the Medical Officer of Health are those :
(a) from qualified medical practitioners.
(b) from the Medical Officer in charge of hospitals.
(c) from the Medical Officers in charge of the Public Mort- uaries where bodies have been taken for inspection and disposal.
107. The Health Authorities when they do discover a case of infectious disease have no power to remove it to hospital unless the patient or his guardian consents, or unless a Magistrate makes an order for removal.
TUBERCULOSIS.
108. Pulmonary Tuberculosis ranks second to broncho- pneumonia as the principal cause of death. The total number of deaths was 2,225, that for 1932 being 2,042. The death rate per mille was 2.71 as compared with 2.52 for the previous year. Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the majority of cases is a disease which unfts the individual for the active exercise of the employ- ment months or even years before death supervenes. Because of the tendency of those unable to work and earn a living, to leave Hong Kong for their villages in China, the deaths reported form an incomplete index of the prevalence of the disease.
109. The number of cases showing clinical symptoms is un- known but reckoning 10 for each death the total comes to over 20,000.
110. As it is a habit of the working classes to expectorate freely without taking precautions the risks of spread of infection ure such that few can escape. Fortunately the natural resistance of the ordinary individual to invasion by the tubercle bacillus is such, that given a sufficiency of proper food and fresh air, he can and more often than not does, wage a winning fight against the invader. It is probable that the great majority of those living in the urban districts have at some time been infected.
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