XN000022-1974-07-24 — Page 3

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WEDNESDAY, JULZ 24, 1974

OTHERS WHO ACQUIRE A SHOP TENANCY AFTER THIS DATE WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED TO TRANSFER THAT TENANCY THROUGH THE AUTHORITY BY THE PUBLIC TENDER SYSTEM.

BUSINESS EXPANSION

TENANTS WILL AS FROM NOW BE ALLOWED TO HOLD SHOP TENANCIES UP TO A MAXIMUM OF 1,200 SQUARE FEET, THAT IS, FIVE THROUGH BAY SHOPS OF 240 SQUARE FEET EACH. WHERE TENANTS ALREADY HOLD MORE THAN 1,200 SQUARE FEET OF SHOP TENANCIES, SUCH HOLDINGS VILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY THIS RULING.

HEALTH REPORT FOR JUNE

INCREASE IN NOTIFICATIONS OF FOOD POISONING CASES

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HEALTH RETURNS FOR JUNE ISSUED TODAY BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT SHOW THAT THERE WERE 72 NOTIFICATIONS OF FOOD POISONING, AN INCREASE OF 25 OVER THE MAY FIGURE.

NOTIFICATIONS OF MEASLES DURING THE MONTH DROPPED TO 35 COMPARED WITH 102 IN MAY. THERE WERE THREE DEATHS COMPARED WITH SEVEN.

BOTH ENTER IC FEVER AND VIRAL HEPATITIS DECREASED SLIGHTLY FROM 40 AND 65 RESPECTIVELY TO 39 AND 63.

JUNE ALSO SAW A CONSIDERABLE DECREASE IN CHICKENPOX FROM 145 TO 41. THERE WERE FIVE CASES OF AMOEBIASIS, ONE OF MENINGITIS, AND TWO OF TETANUS.

OF THE 89 DEATHS RECORDED DURING JUNE, 75 WERE CAUSED BY TUBERCULOSIS — A DROP FROM THE 92 DEATHS FROM THE SAME DISEASE RECORDED IN MAY ONE BY BACILLARY DYSENTERY, ONE BY TYPHOID, THREE BY MEASLES, EIGHT BY VIRAL HEPATITIS AND ONE BY TENTANUS.

NO CASES OF DIPHTHERIA WERE NOTIFIED. THE RECORD FOR POLIOMYELITIS ALSO REMAINED CLEAN WITH NO CASES NOTIFIED, 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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