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Saturday, August 19, 1972

WEEKLY MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department for

the week ended August 5, 1972 are as follows:-

Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures in brackets)

total 190 (196); amoebiasis nil (1); bacillary dysentery 7 (8);

cerebrospinal meningitis and meningococcal infections

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nil (1); chickenpox

nil (nil); enteric fever

nil (nil); leprosy nil

nil (1); tuberculosis 174 (174); diphtheria

(typhoid) 5 (6); enteric fever (paratyphoid)

(3); measles 3 (2); ophthalmia neonatorum -- nil (nil); poliomyelitis

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

Births

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total registered 1,587; 388 on Hong Kong Island, 979 in

Kowloon, and 220 in the New Territories.

Deaths 447 from all causes;

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and 11 in the New Territories.

102 on the Island, 334 in Kowloon

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