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1956

1966

Year

TABLE 27

TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDHOOD 1956, 1966 and 1971-75

B.C.G. receiving

of newborna

Percentage

5 years

deaths below

Tuberculosis Fercentage of

25.00

deaths under Tuberculosis Percentage of

1 year

Infantile

(per 1,000 Tuberculosis Mortality from

7.34

live Births)

1.99

2.71

0.73

0.12

1971

0.64

0.08

0.01

1972

96.63

0.30

0.15

0.02

1973

96.87

0.35

0.07

0.01

1974

97.83

0.82

0.21

0.02

1975

1995

98.28

1.39

0.31

0.03

TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFICATIONS 1956, 1966 and 1971-75

TABLE 28

Origin

1956

1966

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

Government Cheat Clinica

7,704

8,105

6.141

5,509

5,340

5.522

4,886

Other Government Institutione

1,643

990

524

599

556

397

583

Tung Wah Group Hospitals

618

412

281

226

323

254

2,808

Other Non-Government

1,714

1.951

2,031

Institutions and Private Sources

2,030

2,078

2,469

For the year 1966 to 1975, based on revised population

Total

12,155

11,427

9,028

8.420

8.152

8,320

8,192

Notification rate per

464.9

314.8

223.2

206.5

196.0

195.8

187.6

100,000 population

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estimates after 1971 census.