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WORK OF TUBERCULOSIS AND CHEST SERVICE 1979

TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFICATIONS 1961, 1969 AND 1975 TO 1979

Total attendances

Total patients attending (old & new) Number of new patients

1,019,863 95,112

51.592

Classification of new patients

Other Non-Gov't

Government

Chest

Year

Other Gov't Institutions

Clinice

Tung Wah

Group Hospitale

Institutions

Total

& Private Sources

Notification Rate per 100,000 population *

I)

N.S.D.# & Unknown

II)

Diseases other than tuberculosis

26,593(55.4) 7.712(14.9)

III) Non-respiratory tuberculosis

335(0.6)

a) Meninges

2(0.004)

1961

8,957

2,056

947

624

12,584

397.2

b) Bones and joints

33(0.06)

c) Others

300(0.58)

1969

8.391

482

299

1,900

11,072

286.5

IV)

Respiratory tuberculosis

1975

4,886

583

254

2,469

8,192

186.4

i) Not active and unknown activity 11) Active

8,628(16.7)

5,887(11.4)

a) By bacteriology and extent

1976

4,684

507

234

2,503

7,928

178.4

Negative

A1

1,642(3.18)

A2

342(0.66)

1977

4,406

409

226

2,070

7,191

159.3

A3

101(0.20)

Positive

B1

1,371(2.66)

1978

3.897

556

244

1.926

6,623

143.8

B2

1.163(2.25)

B3

770(1.49)

1979

4.632

677

281

2,317

7.907

161.4

Incomplete

01

391(0.76)

02

78(0.15)

03

29(0.06)

* Rates for the years 1973 to 1977, based on revised

population estimates after 1976 By-census

b) By previous history and treatment

No previous history of tuberculosis

Previously diagnosed, no treatment

Previously diagnosed, with treatment

Frevious history not known

Total with examination completed

Note: Figures in brackets denote percent of total new patients

# Nil of significance detected

4,382(8.49)

40(0.08)

1,238(2.40)

227(0.44)

51,155(99.2)