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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1974.

HEALTH REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER

DROP IN NOTIFICATIONS OF TUBERCULOSIS

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HEALTH RETURNS FOR SEPTEMBER ISSUED TODAY BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT SHOW THAT THERE WERE DROPS IN CASES OF, AND DEATHS CAUSED BY TUBERCULOSIS.

IN AUGUST, THERE WERE 735 NOTIFICATIONS AND 74 DEATHS, WHILE IN SEPTEMBER, THE FIGURES WERE 707 AND 56 RESPECTIVELY.

THE INCIDENCE OF MEASLES DROPPED TO TWO FROM THE FOUR RECORDED IN THE PREVIOUS MONTH, AND NO DEATHS RESULTED FROM THE DISEASE.

CHICKENPOX CASES ROSE FROM SIX TO NINE.

THERE WERE INCREASES ALSO IN THE INCIDENCES OF BOTH ENTERIC FEVER AND BACILLARY DYSENTERY. THE FIRST ROSE FROM 34 TO 55,

AND THE SECOND FROM 28 TO 34.

THREE CASES OF AMOEBIASIS WERE REPORTED, 16 OF FOOD POISONING, ONE OF SCRUB TYPHUS, 66 OF VIRAL HEPATITIS, AND EIGHT OF TETANUS.

THE OTHER DEATHS DURING SEPTEMBER, IN ADDITION TO THE 56 FROM TUBERCULOSIS, WERE ONE FROM AMOEBIASIS, ONE FROM VIRAL HEPATITIS, AND TWO FROM TETANUS, MAKING A TOTAL OF 60 A DROP FROM THE 87 RECORDED IN AUGUST.

NO CASES OF DIPHTHERIA WERE NOTIFIED. THE RECORD

FOR POLIOMYELITIS ALSO REMAINED CLEAN. THE INCIDENCE OF OTHER COMMUNICABLE DISEASES SHOWED NO APPRECIABLE VARIATION.

DURING THE MONTH, HONG KONG REMAINED FREE FROM CHOLERA AND OTHER QUARANTINABLE DISEASES.

WATER SITUATION REPORT

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THE TOTAL WATER STORAGE IN ALL RESERVOIRS AS AT 9 AM TODAY (OCTOBER 265 STOOD AT 48,646 MILLION GALLONS, REPRESENTING 72-3 PER CENT OF THE FULL CAPCITY OF 67.300 MILLION GALLONS. AT THIS TIME LAST YEAR THERE WERE 62,033 MILLION GALLONS IN STORE.

THIS MORNING'S STORAGE AT PLOVER COVE WAS 32,380 MILLION GALLONS, COMPARED WITH 48,062 MILLION GALLONS ON THE SAME DAY LAST YEAR. PLOVER COVE'S PRESENT STORAGE REPRESENTS 64.1 PER CENT OF ITS FULL CAPACITY OF 50,500 MILLION GALLONS,

A TRACE OF RAINFALL WAS RECORDED AT THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS ENDING AT 9 AM TODAY. THE MEAN AVERAGE RAINFALL SINCE JANUARY 1 STANDS AT 2,082.1 MM (81.97 IN). TOTAL RAINFALL RECORDED SO FAR THIS YEAR IS 1,865.4 MM (73.44 IN), REPRESENTING A SHORTFALL OF 10.4 PER CENT.