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Saturday, October 14, 1972

WEEKLY MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department

for the week ended on September 30 are as follows:-

Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures

in brackets)

12 (seven); chickenpox one (four); tuberculosis

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total 157 (218); amoebiasis two (nil); bacillary dysentery

126 (187); diphtheria nil (one); enteric fever (typhoid) ten (nine); enteric fever (paratyphoid) -- one (nil); leprosy nil (two); measles -- one (three); ophthalmia

neonatorum one (three); poliomyelitis

nil (one); malaria (fresh case)

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two (nil), and puerperal fever

one (1).

Births

total registered 1,742; 427 on Hong Kong Island,

1,103 in Kowloon, and 212 in the New Territories.

Deaths

482 from all causes; 176 on the Island, 286 in Kowloon

and 20 in the New Territories.

Note to Editors:

ISSUE OF D.I.B. ON MONDAY

There will be an issue of the Daily Information Bulletin on Monday (October 16). A special supplement will also be issued on the same day.

Release time: 2.30 p.m.