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TABLE 28

TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFICATIONS 1961, 1972 AND 1978 TO 1982

TABLE 29

WORK OF TUBERCULOSIS AND CHEST SERVICE 1982

Total attendances

703.343

Total patients attending (old & new)

101,769

Government

Year

Chest Clinics

Other Government Institutions

Tung Wah

Group Hospitals

Other Non- Government

Institutions

& Private Sources

Total

Notification Rate per 100,000 population

Number of new patients

53,825

Classification of new patients

I) NSD#

& Unknown

II) Diseases other than tuberculosis

1961

8957

2056

947

624

12584

397.21

III)

Non-respiratory tuberculosis

1972

5509

599

281

2031

8420

204.58

a) Meninges

1978

3897

556

244

1926

6623

b) Bones and joints

144.07

c) Others

1979

4632

677

281

2317

7907

162.08

IV)

1980

5228

584

252

2001

8065

160.07

1981

4936

472

328

1993

7729

149.96

Respairatory tuberculosis

a) Not active and unknown activity

b) Active

i) By bacteriology and extent

1982

4663

594

314

1956

7527

143.84

31,521(58.56) 9,257(17.20) 432(0.80)

10(0.02)

42(0.08)

380(0.71)

7,053(13.10)

5,407(10.05)

2,206(4.10)

Negative Al

A2

A3

Positive BL

B2

B3

Incomplete 01

02

03

ii) 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

348(0.65)

68(0.13)

1,231(2.29)

911(1.69)

432(0.80)

168(0.31)

22(0.04)

21(0.04)

4,628(8.60)

6(0.01)

608(1.13)

165(0.31)

53,670(99.71)

Note: Figures in brackets denote percent of total new patients

# Nil of significance detected