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Monday, March 26, 1973

HEALTH REPORT FOR FEBRUARY

Decline In Incidence of liost Infectious Diseases

The health report for February, issued today by the Medical

and Health Department, shovs a marked drop in the incidence of infections

diseases compared with the corresponding month last year.

The total of notifications fell from 1,056 to 657, and

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the number of deaths from 126 to 92.

Reports of typhoid fever dropped from 32 to 10, chicken pox

from 116 to 20, and measles from 158 to 56.

Of the 92 deaths from infectious diseases last month,

tuberculosis accounted for 86. In January, the same disease caused

138 deaths.

Two deaths resulted from amoebiasis and one each from

bacillary dysentery, cerebrospinal meningitis, typhoid fever, and

measles,

One case of malaria vas notified, but a spokesman for the

Medical and Health Department described it as "an imported case,"

that is, of non-local origin.

There were no reports of diphtheria or poliomyelitis.

During the month, Hong Kong remained free from cholera

or other quarantinable diseases.

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