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Monday, September 11, 1972

WEEKLY MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department

for the week ended on August 26, 1972 are as follows:-

in brackets)

*Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures

total 222 (195); amoebiasis nil (2); bacillary dysentery

199 (177); enteric fever (typhoid) 10 (6);

de

7 (7); tuberculosis

leprosy 3 (2); measles

-- 2 (nil) and ophthalmia neonatorum

——

1 (1).

✦ Births -- total registered 1,516; 385 on Hong Kong Island,

935 in Kowloon, and 196 in the New Territories.

Deaths

293 from all causes; 110 on the Island, 174 in

Kowloon and 9 in the New Territories.

Release Time: 7.00 p.m.