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Monday, December 31, 1973

HEALTH REPORT FOR NOVEMBER

There were 129 notifications of measles during November, and

one death, according to the monthly health returns issued by the Medical

and Health Department today.

This compared unfavourably with the 112 cases notified in

October, bringing the total notifications for the first 11 months of the

year to 843, compared with 733 in 1972

Fatalities for the same period totalled 13. Last year, betweon

January and November, there were only nine deaths caused by meanies.

Commenting on these figures, a spokesman for the Medical ani

Health Department urged parents of susceptible children betweo, nine

months and five years to have thea Jarunised.

"Free vaccine is available throughout the year at all naternel

and child health centres," he stresscd.

Of the other 95 deaths recorded during No ember, 94 were caused

by tuberculosis, and one by typhoid,

There were 29 notifications of bacillary dysentery, one of

cerebrospinal meningitis, 23 of chickenpox, 26 of typhoid, and two of

paratyphoid.

Again there were no reports of either diphtheriz or poliomyelitis.

The incidence of other communicable diseases showed no appreciable variation.

During the month, Hong Kong remained free from cholera and other

quarantinable diseases,

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