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HEALTH REPORT FOR MAY

Saturday, June 23, 1973

Eighty cases of measles, and one death, were reported during May,

according to the monthly health statistics released today by the Medical

and Health Department.

Also during the month, there were 48 eases of bacillary dysentery

and one death, and five cases of amoebiasis and one death.

Tuberculosis accounted for 569 notifications and 103 deaths,

The incidence of all notifiable diseases rose to 790 from last

month's 782, and the number of deaths totalled 106 compared with 73 in April,

There were 26 cases of chickenpox, but no reports of diphtheria or

poliomyelitis.

Other infectious diseases did not show any appreciable variation.

Hong Kong remained free from cholera and other quarantinable diseases

during the month.

WATER INTERRUPTION

Water supply to a number of premises in Wanchai will be interrupted

for eight hours from 10 p.m. on Monday (June 25) to 6 a.m. the following morning.

The temporary stoppage is to enable the Waterworks Office to make

a fresh water connection at Bowrington Road.

All premises in Bowrington Road, Chan Tong Street, and Nos. 3-43

Morrison Hill Road, No. 1 Leighton Road, and Nos. 251-263 and 250-270

Wan Chai Road will be affected.

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