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ONE DEATH FROM MEASLES IN JULY

Wednesday, August 23, 1972

Monthly health statistics for July released today by the Medical and

Health Department showed there was one death from measles.

A spokesman said the death supported the department's reason for the

current tampaign. This was to help educate the public on measles' prevention

by the immunisation of susceptible children between nine months and five years.

Free measles vaccine is available at. all government maternal and child

health centres. During the campaign, special inoculation teams are on duty at

various street corners, and health education vans keep appointed dates in all

resettlement and housing estates.

During July, a drop was recorded in the number of notifiable infectious

diseases, which totalled 837 compared with 1,088 in the previous month.

No cases of diphtheria, poliomyelitis or puerperal fever were recorded.

and Hong Kong remained free from cholera and other quarantinable diseases.

There was a slight increase in tuberculosis notifications, from June's

627 to 730 in July.

The spokesman said the increase was not thought to be significant.

There was, for example, a decrease of 199 cases compared with the total of

notifications in July last year.

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