56.
(a) Medical Services
(1) General
Continued precauco iz boing put оп QUE medical facilities as result of ingreased population
populution and rising expectations. That Hong Kong hoo poop able to meintoin an impressive health record le a roflection of the effort and
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dedication of all concerned.
57.
Oux record in containing major communicable diconcoc
has been made possible by improved sanitation, immunization programsOS, epidemiological surveillance and primary hoqlth cate. The tuberculosis notification rate declined further from 160 per 100,000 population in 1990 to 150 in 1981, and the death rate from this dicccse foll from, 10.9 to 9.4 per 100,000
population ovoz
over the samo
the same posied. Our infant mortality rate (8.7 per thousand live biztho) and paternal bortality rate (0.08 per thousand totaj birtho) for 1981
choucand total birtho) for 1981 are among the lowast
in the world.
58.
(41) The changing econo
With the agolag 02 OUP population, coupled with improvemento in socio-economic conditions, thore has been
change in the patteza of discacON. The loading causes of donth are now cancer and heart dicençes. There is also an inczoqsing trend in the number of psychiatric caseN associated with the stress of urban life. Another odgnificant change is in the whift of population to the Now Torritories with the development of the New Towns.
'59.
(111) Hospital development
Government's
are
plans for meating there changed exemplified in the completion of the Kwai Chung Hospital which provides 1,340 beds for the montally ill, the Kwok Tak-seng Cardio-Thoracic Contre at Grantham Hospital which now provides
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