HEALTH REPORT FOR AUGUST
Friday, September 22, 1972
Five cases of measles were reported during August, according to
monthly health statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department.
A spokesman said this rate of incidence of the disease was considered
"very low" and could be attributable, in part, to the current anti-measles
campaign.
In August last year, 64 cases of measles were notified, and the
five-year monthly average between 1967 and 1971 was 54.
The spokesman said that during August this year, a total of 785 cases
of infectious diseases was notified, and the number of deaths from these diseases
was 127.
Compared with July, no appreciable variation in the incidence of the
diseases was observed.
dysentery.
There was one fatal case of cerebro-meningitis, and one of bacillary
There were no cases of diphtheria, poliomyelitis, or puerperal fever.
Hong Kong remained free from cholera or other quarantinable diseases.
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