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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1975

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HEALTH REPORT FOR JANUARY

SLIGHT INCREASE IN INCIDENCE OF MEASLES

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HEALTH RETURNS FOR JANUARY ISSUED TODAY BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT SHOW A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THE INCIDENCE OF MEASLES.

IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR, REPORTED CASES OF THE DISEASE TOTALLED TWO, BUT LAST MONTH, NOTIFICATIONS ROSE TO SIX, WITH NO DEATHS.

REPORTS OF SCARLET FEVER WERE REDUCED FROM THE PREVIOUS MONTH'S 53 TO SEVEN IN JANUARY, AND FOOD POISONING CASES DROPPED FROM 10 TO EIGHT.

SIXTY-EIGHT CASES OF VIRAL HEPATITIS WERE REPORTED, THREE OF AMOEBIASIS, 42 OF BACILLARY DYSENTERY, TWO OF CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS AND MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS, 75 OF CHICKENPOX, 42 OF ENTERIC FEVER, TWO OF OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM, 630 OF TUBERCULOSIS, AND ONE OF TETANUS.

OF THE 73 DEATHS RECORDED DURING JANUARY, 67 WERE CAUSED BY TUBERCULOSIS, FOUR BY VIRAL HEPATITIS, ONE DY AMOEBIASIS, AND ONE BY TETANUS.

THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF TETANUS NEONATORUM, POLIOMYELITIS, AND DIPHTHERIA. THE INCIDENCE OF OTHER COMMUNICABLE DISEASES SHOWED NO APPRECIABLE VARIATION.

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