TABLE 3
INFANTILE MORTALITY 1950/54
TABLE 4
AMALYSIS OF MORTALITY FOR THE YEAR 1950, 1953, 1956 AND 1959 (Given as Percentage Total Deaths)
1950
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Disease Group
Respiratory Tuberculosis
HTT
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per 1,000
Disente Group
live bekr
1 year
live birds
001-008
1.5
23
0.2
1. Infectious & Parasitic
Detailed List Numbers
001-138
1950
1957
19:59
22.0
Tuberculosis Meningitis
010
146
2.4
91
0.9
1. Neoplastic
140-239
3.7
Other Forms Tuberculosis
011-019
K3
1.4
5
0.03
Tetanus
061
24
1,4
63
0.6
3. Allergic. Endocrine.
Metabolic & Blood
240-299
0.7
Bronchapacumonia
491
1001
33.0
1567
15.9
Pneumonia-other forms
490,492-3
4. Nervous System &
Sengs Organs
116
1.9
16
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2,4
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Bronchitis
500-502
4402
7.0
21
0.2
6. Respiratory
470-527
199
Gastroenteritis over age
DE 4 weeks
7. Intestinal
530-587
16,3
571
1534
35.3
926
8.8
1. Genito-Urinary
590.637
1.6
Congenital Malformations
750-759
70
1.1
172
1.6
9. Pregnancy. Child-Birch
Birth Injuries
Post-natal Asphyxia
760 4 761
45
0.3
37
0.3
& Puerperium
640-689
762
36
0.6
292
2.8
10, Skin & Musculo-SkelcLAİ
6/90-749
Pneumonia of Newborn
762
190
3.1
372
3.1
Diarrhoea of Newhorn
764
89
1,5
60
0.6
II. Congenital Malformations & Diseases of Early Infancy
750-776
12 11l-defined Causes
780-794
Blood Diseases of Newbom
770 & 77)
70
1.1
0.8
Nutritional Moladjustment
772
27
04
0.8
E600-999
3,9
32 2 28888 32 32 9
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19.3
16.2
23.0
21.3
17.2
15.1
28 * 92337 33 22 8
7.0
14.2 9.3
1.2
1.1
4.9
6.2
7.6
8.9
22.3
11.3
1.1
1.1
0.4
0.4
9.3
8.7
5.0
5.8
Immacurlty
776
706
11.6
766
7.3
Il-defined Causes
795
75
1.2
123
1.2
60. The fall in the maternal mortality rate has been mainly brought about by reductions in the incidence of death from toxaemias and haemorrhages of pregnancy. Deaths from septic complications of preg. nancy, childbirth, and the puerperium have remained satisfactorily low. 61. Table 4 shows the changes in the mortality pattern which have occurred over the last ten years. Deaths from infectious diseases have declined considerably due to therapeutic advances and possibly to a rise in the general standard of health. Respiratory diseases are declining only slowly, mainly because of the rapidly increasing child population which is particularly vulnerable to bronchopneumonia, Diseases of the later years of life can be seen to be of increasing importance with the gradual rise in the relative incidences of cardiovascular, central nervous (mainly cerebrovascular), and neoplastic lesions: this is to be expected from the "freezing" of a swollen and relatively young population in the Colony 10 years ago. The effect of a rapid natural expansion of such a population in a confined area such as Hong Kong is reflected in the figures for accidents and violence.
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13. Accidents. Poisoning &
Violence
Urban Areas
TEL. WORK OF THE HEALTH DIVISION
HYGIENE AND SANITATION
62. Responsibility for environmental sanitation in the urban areas rests with the Urban Council and Health Officers are seconded to the Urban Services Department from the Medical and Health Department. The Assistant Director of Health Services as Vice-Chairman of the Urban Council is the co-ordinating link between the two Departments in so far as communicable disease control, through better environmental sanitation, food hygiene and vector control, is concerned. The Health Officers are concerned with the guidance of and advice to the Health Inspectorate in the day to day management of these health problems.
63. Through the medium of routine house inspections carried out quarterly by the Health Inspectorate there is a close link with health education activities in connexion with immunization against diphtheria and typhoid and with the control of intestinal infections.
64. During a greatly intensified diphtheria immunization campaign. mobile inoculation teams worked closely with the health inspectorate in
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