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Tuesday, October 24, 1972
MEDICAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS
Statistics released today by the Medical and Health Department for
the week ended October 7 are as follows:-
brackets)
* Notifications of infectious cases (previous week's figures in
total 185 (157); amoebiasis nil (two); bacillary dysentery
seven (12); chickenpox one (one); tuberculosis 166 (126); diphtheria
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nil (one); enteric fever (typhoid)
five(ten); enteric fever (paratyphoid)
nil (one); leprosy three (nil); measles nil (one); ophthalmia
neonatorum
two (one); malaria
fever
one (one).
Births
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(fresh case) nil (two); and puerperal
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total registered 1,755; 459 on Hong Kong Island, 1,060
in Kowloon, and 236 in the New Territories.
Deaths
356 from all causes; 131 on the Island, 206 in Kowloon
and 19 in the New Territories.
REMOVAL OF DOG INOCULATION AND LICENSING CENTRE
The dog inoculation and licensing centre in Waterloo Road, Kowloon
Tong, will move to a new centre located opposite the Canton Road Government
Offices at 393 Canton Road, Kowloon, as from 9 a.m. on Thursday (October 26).
The new centre will be open on Thursdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to
12 noon, and 12.45 p.m. to 4.30 p.m., and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
It will be closed on public holidays.
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