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FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1988

REFERRING TO HEART DISEASES, WHICH CAUSE OF DEATH IN HONG KONG, DR THONG SAID IN 1986.

REMAINED THE NO.2 IT HAD CLAIMED 4,337

LEADING LIVES

LAST YEAR, 867 CARDIAC OPERATIONS WERE PERFORMED WITH A HIGH SUCCESS RATE IN GRANTHAM HOSPITAL.

IN ADDITION, TRAINING PROGRAMMES AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS FROM NEIGHBOURING IN THE CENTRE.

FOR

LOCAL MEDICAL STUDENTS COUNTRIES WERE CONDUCTED

LOOKING AHEAD, DR THONG REPORTED THAT THE NEW RUTTONJEE HOSPITAL PROJECT WAS PROGRESSING SMOOTHLY.

THE GOVERNMENT HAD APPROVED AN INCREASED PROVISION OF 933.81 MILLION FOR THE PROJECT, BRINGING THE TOTAL PROVISION TO $279.95 MILLION.

HE SAID THIS WOULD PROVIDE A NEW AND BEDS, INSTEAD OF THE ORIGINALLY PLANNED 432.

CONSTRUCTION OF

BIGGER HOSPITAL OF

614

THE SUPERSTRUCTURE HAD BEGUN AND OTHER CONTRACTS FOR THE MECHANICAL AND ENGINEERING WORK OF THE PROJECT ALSO AWARDED LAST YEAR.

WERE

NEW THE TARGET COMPLETION DATE OF THE THE END OF 1989.

RUTTONJEE HOSPITAL

IS

FIGURES SHOW DECREASE IN OVERALL CRIME

OVERALL CRIME IN THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THIS BY 2.5 PER CENT WHEN COMPARED WITH THE PREVIOUS QUARTER.

YEAR DECLINED

AT A PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY RELEASING THE CRIME STATISTICS (FRIDAY), MR PETER LEE, THE POLICE DEPUTY DIRECTOR (CRIME), SAID CRIME REPORTS MADE TO THE POLICE IN THE QUARTER 223.3 CASES PER DAY.

TOTALLED 20,320 AVERAGING

PER CENT), INDECENT

SIGNIFICANT DECREASES WERE RECORDED

FEMALE ON

ASSAULT

WOUNDING AND SERIOUS ASSAULT (DOWN 13.2 PER CENT).

IN SNATCHING (DOWN 37.6 AND (DOWN 28.3 PER CENT)

/HOWEVER, INCREASES

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