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TABLE 27 TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDHOOD 1961, 1973 AND 1979 TO 1983

TABLE 28

TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFICATIONS 1961, 1973 AND 1979 TO 1983

Percentage*

Year

of newborns receiving BCG

Percentage of Tuberculosis Deaths under

Percentage of

Infantile Mortality

Tuberculosis Deaths under

from

Year

Government

Chest Clinics

Other

Tung Wah Government Group Institutions Hospitals

Tuberculosis

Other Non- Government Institutions

& Private Sources

Total

Notification Rate per 100 000 population

5 years

1 year

(per 1 000

births)

1961

8 957

2 056

947

624

12 584

397.21

1961

77.77

11.48

2.62

0.46

1973

5 340

556

226

2 030

8 152

193.51

1973

94.39

0.35

0.09

0.01

1979

4 632

677

281

2 317

7 907

162.08

1979

99.58@

0.96

0.19

0.01

1980

5 228

584

252

2 001

8 065

160.07

1980

99.548

0.73

0.18

0.01

1981

4.936

472

328

1 993

7 729

149.96

1981

99.53

0.41

1982

4 663

594

314

1 956

7 527

143.84

1982

98.94

0.22

1983

4 509

634

385

1 773

7 301

137.41

1983

99.41

0.45

* Percentage of newborns based on registered birth figures in

1961 and based on known birth figures since 1970.

Figures adjusted after 1981 Census.