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MONTHLY HEALTH REPORT

Thursday, June 29, 1972

One-hundred-and-thirteen people died of notifiable infectious diseases

during May. They were among the 915 notifications of such diseases recorded by

the Medical and Health Department.

However, a spokesman for the department said Hong Kong had remained

free from cholera and other quarantinable diseases during the month.

In the previous month - April the Medical and Health Department

recorded a total of 962 notifications and 103 deaths.

"Compared with April," the spokesman said, "there was no significant

variation in the number of notifications of the intestinal group of infectious

diseases, such as bacillary dysentery and typhoid fever."

In May, the number of chickenpox notifications dropped to 60 from 104

in April. During the month, there were three cases of cerebrospinal meningitis

notified, but no case of diphtheria,polio-myelitis or puerperal fever was recorded.

"There was no appreciable variation in the incidence of other infectious

diseases," the spokesman added.

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