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Thursday, March 16, 1972

MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

For Week Ended February 19

Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department for

the week ended on February 19, 1972 are as follows:-

Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures in brackets)

total 187 (267); amoebiasis nil (one); bacillary dysentery - seven (six);

chickenpox 12 (37); enteric fever (typhoid) three (nine); enteric fever

(paratyphoid) -- one (nil); measles 19 (33); ophthalmia neonatorum →→→

(two); poliomyelitis nil (one); and tuberculosis 145 (178).

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Births total registered 517; 144 on Hong Kong Island, 315 in Kowloon,

and 58 in the New Territories.

Deatha 398 from all causes; 121 on the Island, 254 in Kowloon and

23 in the New Territories.

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