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TUBERCULOSIS MORTALITY & BCIO, VACCINATION OF NEWBORNS 1953 - 1970 (MORTALITY RATES AS PERCENTAGE OF 1955 RATES)

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44. Covering the schools there are 10 inoculators divided into 5 teams engaged in tuberculin testing and the administration of B.C.G. It takes approximately two years for all schools to be covered.

The work of hospitals dealing with tuberculosis cases is reviewed elsewhere in this report.

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SOCIAL HYGIENE SERVICE

(Tables 28–32)

46. The incidence of early infectious syphilis was 18, i.c., 35.7% less than the previous year. The number of syphilitic cases was 21.1% less than the previous year. There was also a marked reduction of latent syphilitic cases in 1970, The incidence of gonorrhoea was about the same as in the previous year. It is encouraging to note that the incidence of sypbills in the teenage group of the population has not risen in the manner experienced in many other parts of the world. The trends over the past ten years are illustrated in Figures $ to 10.

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