XN000022-1972-08-14 — Page 11

11

F

Monday, August 14, 1972

WEEKLY MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

E

Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department for

the week ending on July 29, 1972 are as follows:-

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

brackets) - total 196 (259); amoebiasis - 1 (1);

1 (1); bacillary dysentery

8 (14); cerebrospinal meningitis and meningococcal infections -- ↑ (nil);

chickenpox

—

—

1 (2); tuberculosis 174 (225); enteric fever (typhoid)

6 (9); enteric fever (paratyphoid) nil (1); leprosy 3 (5) and measles

2 (2).

Births

total registered 1,408; 374 on Hong Kong Island, 853

in Kowloon, and 181 in the New Territories.

* Deaths

400 from all causes; 107 on the Island, 281 in Kowloon

and 12 in the New Territories.

Release Time: 6.45 p.m.