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Monday, April 3, 1972

MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

For Week Ended March 4

Statistics released by the Medical and Health Department for the

week ended March 4 are as follows:

Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures in

brackets) - total: 312 (300); bacillary dysentery --11 (10); chickenpox

26 (34); enteric fever (typhoid) 4 (13); leprosy

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1 (1); measles

22 (54); ophthalmia neonatorum 3(1); and tuberculosis - 245 (186).

Births

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total registered: 1,726 412 on Hong Kong Island,

1,032 in Kowloon, and 282 in the New Territories.

Deaths

387 from all causes

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132 on Hong Kong Island, 234 in

Kowloon and 21 in the New Territories.

ANTI-POLIO CAMPAIGN CONTINUES

More Than 16,000 Doses Given In Three Weeks

A total of 5,240 doses of anti-polio vaccine were given to babies.

and small children during the week ended March 18,

Of these, 1,534 were first doses, 1,690 second doses and 2,016 boosters.

They bring to 16,031 the total number of doses administered since the

drive began on February 28, 1972.

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