108. The night landing service at Kal Tak Airport was officially inaugurated during July. The medical inspection hours were extended accordingly to midnight, or later as required, and the additional staff necessary for this service was provided. Figure 2 shows the expansion of work at the Airport during the last 10 years.
Number of Aircraft
Inspected
FIGURE 2
Number of Persons
Inspected
arriving from that port by sea or air, but no case of the disease was detected or occurred.
112. The number of persons arriving at Lo Wu showed an increase of 33% over the previous year. The modifications to the Frontier Port. which were completed at the end of 1958 enabled smoother traffic flow and hence there was no difficulty in coping with the increased numbers. Of the 416,133 persons entering through Lo Wa during the year 50.543 were vaccinated against Smallpox.
Number of Persons Fuspected
1,500-
500-
اس
50,000-
Passengers
•40,000–
Crow
30,000-
20,000-
P
10,000-
Year
1950
1955 1959
1.452.698
113.871
416,133
TUBERCULOSIS
113. While progress in the prevention of tuberculosis in the youngest age groups has been substantial during the past ten years, morbidity in the adult groups has remained very much the same. There has been nevertheless an encouraging fall in the mortality rate and those with tuberculosis are living longer, the average age at death from tuberculosis now being 37 years whereas in 1952 it was 25 years.
TABLE 6
195-0 1955 1959
Prophylactic Vaccinations and other measures
1950
1955
1959
109. During the year, the recruitment of five additional inoculators brought the establishment in this grade to a total of seventy. Inoculators are posted to twenty five different stations and centres throughout the Colony and are responsible for the field-work of the inoculation and vaccination campaigns.
110. The continued occurrence of cholera in Thailand during the first six months of the year called for the maintenance of a careful check on arrivals by sea and air from Bangkok. In addition, over 1,000 lbs, of fruit. vegetables, or other foodstuffs, considered to be potentially dangerous to health on account of cholera, were impounded and destroyed.
III. A small outbreak of smallpox occurred in Singapore during April and May; a careful survey was made of all passengers and crews
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Death rate
Year
Popularjon
per 100.000
TUBERCULOSIS
Percentage of total deaths
Percentage of nuberculosis deaths
bedow 5 years
1950 ..
1951
2,265.000 2.013.000
144.0
07.7
38.3
208.0
20.0
34.0
1952.
2,250,000
158,8
18.4
34.3
1933.
2,250,000
130.6
16.0
36.3
1934
1,277.000
126.3
14.9
31.2
1955
2.340,000
120.0
14.7
28,0
1956
2.440,000
107,0
13.6
25.0
1937.
2,583.000
103.6
13.9
21.2
1958
2.748.000
83.K
11.2
19.6
1959
2.857.0K)
76.2
10.7
19.2
114. As a result of the policy of B.C.G. vaccination of the new born. chemo-prophylaxis of tuberculin positivity naturally acquired under 3 years of age and contact examination and treatment, the death rates at 5 years of age and under have declined very sharply since 1954,
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