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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1989

CHOLERA CASE CONFIRMED

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SUFFERING

CONFIRMED TO BE AN 11-YEAR-OLD VIETNAMESE BOY WAS FROM CHOLERA, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY (FRIDAY).

THE BOY WAS AMONG A GROUP OF 12 VIETNAMESE WHO ARRIVED IN KONG BY BOAT ON MONDAY (OCTOBER 23). UPON ARRIVAL, HE WAS FOUND TO SUFFERING FROM DIARRHOEA AND VOMITING.

ΤΟ ADMITTED

PRINCESS

HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY WHERE HIS CONDITION WAS DESCRIBED AS SATISFACTORY.

MARGARET

HONG BE

HOSPITAL

THE PATIENT WAS THE ILLNESS ON

LABORATORY TEST RESULTS CONFIRMED TODAY THAT SUFFERING FROM CHOLERA EL TOR. AS THE BOY DEVELOPED ARRIVAL AT HONG KONG, THE CASE WAS CLASSIFIED AS AN IMPORTED ONE.

OFFICERS FROM THE

URBAN SERVICES MARINE POLICE DEPOT WHERE THE

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND DEPARTMENT HAD VISITED THE ABERDEEN VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE WERE DETAINED.

THIS GROUP OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE TOGETHER WITH WHO WERE DETAINED IN THE DEPOT RECEIVED MEDICAL EXAMINATION GIVEN PREVENTIVE DRUGS. THE DEPOT WAS ALSO DISINFECTED.

136 OTHERS AND WERE

ALL 147 VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE WERE LATER

CENTRE RECEPTION

WHERE THEY ARE GREEN ISLAND

UNDER

TRANSFERRED то THE HEALTH

SURVEILLANCE.

THE DEPARTMENT URGED MEMBERS

OBSERVE

STRICT PERSONAL,

OF THE PUBLIC TO CONTINUE ΤΟ ENVIRONMENTAL FOOD AND

HYGIENE TO AVOID

CONTRACTING CHOLERA.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR RETIRES AFTER A 22-YEAR MARINE CAREER

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NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE IN HIS TIME WOULD HAVE CHERISHED SEAGOING A CHILDHOOD DREAM AS A CAREER; BUT FOR MR BERNARD TANG, IT WAS BOTH AND A LIFETIME MISSION.

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AND AFTER 22 YEARS' SERVICE

THE MARINE DEPARTMENT, MR THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (MARINE DISTRICTS), WILL GO ON PRE-RETIREMENT LEAVE NEXT MONTH BEFORE RETIRING IN FEBRUARY NEXT YEAR.

TANG,

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THE FIRST FROM HIS SCHOOL TO HAVE JOINED THE SHIPPING WORLD AFTER GRADUATING IN 1957, MR TANG STARTED HIS SEABORNE CAREER SHIPPING COMPANY IN LIVERPOOL, UK.

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"AN INTERESTING POINT то MAKE WAS THAT OUT OF THE CANDIDATES TAKING THE CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY EXAMINATION IN THEN, I AND THE OTHER FOUR WHO PASSED CITIZENS, HE SAID.

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