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TABLE 28

TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDHOOD 1961, 1974 AND 1980 to 1984

TABLE 29

TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFICATIONS 1961, 1974 AND 1980 TO 1984

Percentage?

Year

of newborns receiving BCC

Percentage of Tuberculosis Deaths under

5 years

Percentage of

Tuberculosis Deaths under

Infantile Mortality

from Tuberculosis

Year

Government

Chest Clinics

Other Government Institutions

Tung Wah

Group Hospitals

Other Non- Government

Institutions Total

& Private Sources

Notification Rate per 100 000 population

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

1974

5 522

397

323

2 078

8 320

192.61

1974

95.83

0.82

0.21

0.02

1980

5 228

584

252

2 001

8 065

160.07

1980

99.54@

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

1984

5.196

506

319

1 822

7 843

146.22

1984

99.91

0.24

0.24

0.01

* Percentage of newborns based on registered birth figures in

1961 and based on known birth figures since 1970.

Figures adjusted after 1981 Census.