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Wednesday, August 2, 1972

MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department for

the week ending on July 15 are as follows:-

* Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures in

1 (1); bacillary dysentery

brackets) total 194 (150); amoebiasis

cerebrospinal meningitis and meningococcal infections - 1 (nil); chickenpox

9 (4):

nil (1); tuberculosis

163 (131); diphtheria nil (nil); enteric fever

nil (nil); leprosy - one

3 (nil); poliomyelitis

nil

(typhoid) 14 (10); enteric fever (paratyphoid)

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1 (1); ophthalmia neonatorum

nil (nil).

(2); measles

(nil); and scarlet fever

Births

total registered 1,364; 369 on Hong Kong Island, 829 in

Kowloon, and 166 in the New Territories.

* Deaths

442 from all causes; 111 on the Island, 317 in Kowloon

and 14 in the New Territories.

Release time: 8.30 p.m.