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Tuesday, September 19, 1972

WEEKLY MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

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Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department

for the week ended on September 2 are as follows:-

Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures

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13 (7); cerebrospinal

116

in brackets) total 146 (222); bacillary dysentery

meningitis and meningococcal infections 1 (nil); tuberculosis

(199); enteric fever (typhoid) 11 (10); leprosy

nil (2) ophthalmia neonatorum

Birth

4 (3); measles

nil (1); malaria 1 (nil).

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total registered 1585; 393 on Hong Kong Island; 1006

in Kowloon, and 186 in the New Territories.

* Deaths

341 from all causes; 104 on the Island, 223 in

Kowloon and 14 in the New Territories.

Release time: 7.00 p.m.

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