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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1974

HEALTH REPORT FOR NOVEMBER

RISE IN REPORTED INCIDENCE OF MEASLES

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HEALTH RETURNS FOR NOVEMBER ISSUED TODAY BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT SHOW AN INCREASE IN THE INCIDENCE OF MEASLES.

IN OCTOBER, REPORTED CASES OF THE DISEASE DROPPED TO ONE, WITH NO DEATHS, BUT LAST MONTH, NOTIFICATIONS ROSE TO FOUR, AGAIN WITH NO DEATHS.

+WINTER-SPRING IS USUALLY THE TIME OF YEAR WHEN MEASLES BECOMES A PROBLEM, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID, +AND PARENTS OF SUSCEPTIBLE CHILDREN AGED BETWEEN SIX MONTHS AND FIVE YEARS ARE ADVISED TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE IMMUNISED.+

THE INCIDENCE OF SCARLET FEVER TOTALLED FIVE. NO CASES OF THE DISEASE HAD BEEN REPORTED IN THE PREVIOUS TWO MONTHS. SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR, 27 CASES OF SCARLET FEVER HAVE BEEN REPORTED, WITH NO DEATHS.

REPORTS OF BACILLARY DYSENTERY ROSE FROM 26 TO 41, AND CHICKENPOX FROM SEVEN TO 21.

BUT THERE WAS A DROP IN THE INCIDENCE OF ENTERIC FEVER, FROM 32 IN OCTOBER TO 26 LAST MONTH.

ONE CASE OF CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS WAS REPORTED, THREE OF AMOEBIASIS, 33 OF FOOD POISONING, ONE OF OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM, 54 OF VIRAL HEPATITIS, AND FOUR OF TETANUS.

OF THE 68 DEATHS RECORDED DURING NOVEMBER, 61 WERE CAUSED BY TUBERCULOSIS-A DROP OF THREE FROM THE 64 DEATHS FROM THE SAME DISEASE RECORDED IN OCTOBER ONE BY CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS, FOUR BY VIRAL HEPATITIS, ONE BY TETANUS, AND ONE BY TETANUS NEONATORUM.

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.

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