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additional posts for health and nursing grades should be created
at an early date. This report is now being given consideration to.
When this has been completed, the MDAC will enquire more fully
into the functioning of the services. Some account of the present
services is however appropriate at this stage.
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Tuberculosis
formerly Hong Kong's most lethal disease
has now become fifth on the list of the common causes of death.
Over the past 20 years the notification rate has dropped from
689.0 to 223.2 per 100,000 and the death rate from 207.9 to 30.9
Almost 100% of all babies per 100,000 between 1951 and 1971.
born in Hong Kong now receive B.C.G. vaccination.
Such is the
progress in controlling this disease that most cases are now
treated on an out-patient basis.
Port Health
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Considerable emphasis is placed on following up
Thus present
patients and ensuring all contacts are examined.
efforts are directed at tracing contacts, following up out-patients
and ensuring B.C.G. vaccination of newborn babies in hospitals and
of children at schools.
A major function of the health services, and one
required under International Health Regulations, is the provision
of a port health service and of ancillary facilities in the
harbour and at the airport. The record of Hong Kong's port
health service is excellent and to this can be credited the
virtual absence of quarantinable diseases in Hong Kong over a
long period. Some expansion of services will be required as the
airport and other areas develop but for the present no additional
requirements in terms of staff and facilities are foreseen.
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