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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1986

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FOUR NEW CHOLERA CASES CONFIRMED

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FOUR NEW CASES OF CHOLERA WERE CONFIRMED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) BY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT. THIS BRINGS TO 18 THE NUMBER OF CASES CONFIRMED SINCE HONG KONG WAS DECLARED CHOLERA INFECTED LAST WEEK.

THE FOUR PATIENTS ARE AGED FROM 15 TO 51. ALL WORK IN

KWUN TONG. ONE OF THE MALE PATIENTS IS JAPANESE.

ALL FOUR HAVE BEEN CLASSIFIED AS LOCAL CASES.

UP TO 4 PM TODAY, A TOTAL OF 15 851 PEOPLE HAD RECEIVED INOCULATIONS AT THE EIGHT INOCULATION CENTRES AND THREE PORT HEALTH OFFICES.

THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ATTENDING THE EIGHT CLINICS FOR INOCULATION DROPPED FROM 20 769 YESTERDAY TO 14 005 TODAY.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT SAID THAT THIS WAS MOST ENCOURAGING AS MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WERE BEGINNING TO REALISE THAT INOCULATION WAS NOT THE MOST EFFECTIVE PUBLIC PREVENTIVE HEALTH MEASURE.

THE BEST WAY TO PREVENT THE DISEASE WAS THROUGH PERSONAL AND FOOD HYGIENE, HE SAID.

THE FOLLOWING IS A BREAKDOWN OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WERE INOCULATED TODAY (WITH YESTERDAY'S FIGURES IN BRACKETS):

SAI YING PUN JOCKEY CLUB CLINIC

SHAU KEI WAN JOCKEY CLUB CLINIC

KWUN TONG JOCKEY CLUB HEALTH CENTRE

YAU MA TEI JOCKEY CLUB POLYCLINIC

LADY TRENCH POLYCLINIC, TSUEN WAN

YUEN LONG JOCKEY CLUB HEALTH CENTRE

SHEK WU HUI JOCKEY CLUB CLINIC

TAI PO JOCKEY CLUB CLINIC

PORT HEALTH OFFICES

851 (1 640)

1 400

(2 900)

3 700

(4 000)

1 700

(2 760)

2 325

(1 640)

1 686

(2 429)

963 (2 700)

1 380 (2 700)

1 846

(2187)

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