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Tuesday, August 8, 1972

WEEKLY MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department

for the week ending on July 22 are as follows:-

Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures

1 (1); bacillary dysentery

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in brackets) -- total 259 (194); amoebiasis

14 (9); cerebrospinal meningitis and meningococcal infections --

chickenpox - 2 (nil); tuberculosis 225 (163); diphtheria

enteric fever (typhoid)

9 (14); enteric fever (paratyphoid)

nil (1);

nil (nil);

1 (nil);

leprosy 5 (1); measles -- 2 (1); ophthalmia neonatorum -- nil (3);

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poliomyelitis

nil (nil); and scarlet fever nil (nil).

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Births - total registered 1557; 369 on Hong Kong Island, 967

in Kowloon, and 221 in the New Territories.

Deaths

331 from all causes; 114 on the Island, 198 in

Kowloon and 19 in the New Territories.

Release time: 6.30 p.m.