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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1974.'

HEALTH REPORT FOR AUGUST

INCREASE IN NOTIFICATIONS OF BACILLARY DYSENTERY

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HEALTH RETURNS FOR AUGUST ISSUED TODAY BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT SHOW THAT THERE WAS AN INCREASE IN THE NOTIFICATIONS OF BACILLARY DYSENTERY.

IN JULY, THERE WERE 13 REPORTS OF THIS DISEASE, BUT IN AUGUST THE TOTAL ROSE TO 28.

THE INCIDENCE OF FOOD POISONING DROPPED FROM 44 IN JULY TO 15 IN AUGUST. THE TOTAL OF VICTIMS OF FOOD POISONING SINCE

THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR IS 284, BUT NO DEATH HAVE BEEN RECORDED.

YIRAL HEPATITIS CASES DROPPED FROM 69 TO 62.

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NOTIFICATIONS OF MEASLES DROPPED TO FOUR FROM 18, AND

CHICKENPOX FROM 12 TO SIX.

THIRTY-TWO CASES OF TYPHOID WERE REPORTED, TWO OF PARA TYPHOID, ONE OF CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS AND MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS, EIGHT OF SCRUB TYPHUS, AND 10 FROM TETANUS.

OF THE 87 DEATHS RECORDED DURING AUGUST, 74 WERE CAUSED - BY TUBERCULOSIS - AN INCREASE FROM THE 58 DEATHS FROM THE SAME DISEASE RECORDED IN JULY ONE BY CEREBROSPINAL HENINGITIS AND MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTION, ONE BY TYPHOID, ONE BY HEASLES, SEVEN FROM VIRAL HEPATITIS, AND THREE FROM TETANUS.

NO CASES OF DIPHTHERIA VERE NOTIFIED. THE RECORD FROM 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.

NEW EDITION OF HONG KONG HARBOUR PLAN

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A NEW EDITION OF THE HONG KONG HARBOUR PLAN GIVING A COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF THE FAIRWAYS, BUOY POSITIONS AND RECLAMATIONS IS NOW ON SALE AT $1 EACH.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE MARINE DEPARTMENT SAID THAT THE NEW VERSION SHOWS A CONSIDERABLE REVISION FROM THE 1973 EDITION.

THE PLANS ARE NOW ON SALE AT THE MARINE DEPARTMENT HEAD- QUARTERS ON CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, AND AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, STAR FERRY CONCOURSE, HONG KONG-

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