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TABLE 28

TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFICATIONS 1961, 1967 AND 1973 TO 1977

Goverment Other Gov't

Year

Chest

Institutions

Clinics

Tung Wah

Group Hospitals

Other Non-Gov't Institutions

Total

& Private Sources

Notification Rate per 100,000 population

TABLE 29

WORK OF TUBERCULOSIS AND CHEST SERVICE 1977

Total attendances

Total patients attending (old & new)

Number of new patiente

Classification of new patients

1) ́ N.S.D.# & Unknown

II) Diseases other than tuberculçada

III) Non-respiratory tuberculosis

«) Meninges

b) Bones and joints

o) Others

Respiratory tuberculosis

1) Not active and unknown activity 11) Active

a) By bacteriology and extent

Negative

1961

8.957

2,056

947

624

12,584

397.2

IV)

1967

11,917

1,167

563

1,606

15,253

409.7

1973

5,340

556

226

2,030

8,152

193.5

1974

5,522

397

323

2,078

8,320

192.6

1975

4,886

583

254

2,469

8,192

186.4

1976

4.684

507

234

2,500

7.928

178.4

1977

4,40€

489

226

2,070

7,191

159.3

#

Rates for the years 1973 to 1977, based on revised population estimates after 1976 By-censua

1,159,223

90,368

39,395

20,665 (52.5) 5.925 (15.0)

420 (1.1)

3 (0.01)

7 (0.02)

410 (1.04)

7,115 (18.1) 5,018 (12.7)

1,217 (3.1)

276 (0.7)

A1

A2

A3

62 (0.2)

Positive

B1

1,093 (2.8)

B2

1,139 (2.9)

B3

691 (1.8)

Incomplete

01

406 (1.0)

02

105 (0.3)

03

29 (0.1)

b) By previous history and treatment

No previous history of tuberculosis

Previously diagnosed, no treatment Previously diagnosed, with treatment Previous history not known

Total with examination completed

Note: Figures in brackets denote percent of total new patients

# Nil of significance detected

3,625 (9.2)

46 (0.1)

1,162 (2.9)

185 (0.5)

39,143 (99.4)