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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1975.

GIS OUTLET FOR WIDE RANGE OF PUBLICATIONS

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THE INFORMATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND THE ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT HAVE RECENTLY ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT BY WHICH THE GIS ACTS AS THE SOLE AGENT FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE OECD'S WIDE RANGE OF PUBLICATIONS,

THIS INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION MEANS THE AVAILABILITY IN HONG KONG OF NUMEROUS BOOKS AND BOOKLETS PRODUCED BY THE OECD WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY HARD TO COME BY HERE.

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THE RANGE OF SUBJECTS COVERED BY THE OECD INCLUDE PUBLICATIONS ON ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT AID, AGRICULTURE AND FOOD, FISHERIES, ENERGY, MANPOWER AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS, INDUSTRY, TRANSPORT AND TOURISM, AND SCIENCE AND EDUCATION.

A SELECTION OF OECD PUBLICATIONS IS PRESENTLY ON DISPLAY AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE AT THE STAR FERRY CONCOURSE, HONG KONG ISLAND.

ORDERS CAN BE PLACED AT THE CENTRE, AND ALSO AT THE PUBLICATIONS OFFICE OF THE GIS AT 1A GARDEN ROAD, HONG KONG.

HEPATITIS CASES DROP

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THERE HAS BEEN A GRADUAL DECLINE IN THE NUMBER OF VIRAL HEPATITIS CASES SINCE THE BEGINNING OF JUNE.

A TOTAL OF 51. CASES WERE NOTIFIED TO THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT LAST WEEK, COMPARED WITH 61 IN THE FIRST WEEK OF JUNE AND 80 IN THE LAST WEEK OF MAY.

NO DEATHS CAUSED BY THE DISEASE WERE REPORTED IN THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF JUNE. THERE WERE FIVE DEATHS IN MAY.

THE NUMBER OF VIRAL HEPATITIS NOTIFICATIONS SO FAR THIS YEAR TOTALLED 1,086 WITH 18 DEATHS.

AS REGARDS AGE DISTRIBUTION OF CASES NOTIFIED SO FAR THIS YEAR, THE HIGHEST NUMBER WAS RECORDED IN THE 20-24 AGE GROUP, ACCOUNTING FOR 22 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL CASES.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT ADVISED THE PUBLIC TO CONTINUE PAYING SPECIAL ATTENTION TO PERSONAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD HYGIENE, WHICH IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE METHOD OF PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF. THE DISEASE.