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Wednesday, March 8, 1972

MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

For Week Ended February 12.

Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department

for the week ended on February 12, 1972 are as follows:-

Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures

in brackets)

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total 267 (235); amoebiasis -- 1 (nil); bacillary

dysentery 6 (10); chickenpox

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9 (8); enteric fever (paratyphoid)

37 (21); enteric fever (typhoid)

nil (1); leprosy

measles 33 (46); ophthalmia neonatorum

1 (nil); and tuberculosis 178 (145).

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nil (3);

2 (1); poliomyelitis

Births total registered 1,413; 352 on Hong Kong Island,

848 in Kowloon, and 213 in the New Territories.

Deaths

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447 from all causes; 138 on the Island, 274 in

Kowloon and 35 in the New Territories.

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