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Medical and Health Departmental Reports 醫務衛生署年報 All

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bringing hardship and starvation to many families. There is no general form of social insurance in the Colony and the unfor- tunate sufferer must continue to work. A few of the more considerate employers are prepared to continue to pay tuber- culoas employees while they are under treatment, this being the exception rather than the rule; but even so, due to the shortage of hospital accommodation, the sufferer may be obliged to recover as best he can within his own home where conditiona and diet are far from suitable. There are undoubtedly many who do recover in spite of such conditions while many others show evidence of having suffered from extensive disease without severe disability and have recovered without special treatment. Hospital accommodation generally falls far short of the requirements, Based on the widely accepted standard of one hospital bed for each tuberculosis death in the year, the accommodation available for the treatment of tuberculosis is about 20% of the requirements.

The details of the notifications of pulmonary tuber- culosis are set out below. It should be noted that the figures in this and in subsequent tables showing age and sex distribution have been reorganized to conform to the standards set forth by the World Health Organization.

NOTIFICATIONS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

1948 and 1949,

N

На

Ana

extremely di bution of the

indicates tha what degree

The

monary tube sex and app

No of dentha per 100 motilitations

80

70

60

S

30

20

1949

Age Group

10

Male Female P

1949

1948

Age Group

Under L

17

14

Jal

Fle

Forman

Mode

Female

Persona

13

17

Under 1

0

22

65

13

42

ד

21

128

77

1905

26

54

5. 9

16

#

HOSP

28

18

40

10-14

4

9

5-

TO

56

126

95

64

149

10-14

98

34

70

16-19

TI

16

15-19

167

111

278

661

200

950

20-24

63

20

24

pulmai

20-24

630

920

B50

25-29

787

310

1,097

1,342

489

2,081

25-29

89

71

hospita

30-34

707

343

1,050

30-34

132

94

availab

36-39

607

310

926

866

508

1,364

302

237

35-39

150

599

90

40-44

45-49-

254

196

300

180

67

H

367

636

50-54

197

116

307

45-49

ure dist

52

55-59

117

97

214

121

128

249

60-54

114

48

60-64

41

61

112

66-69

27

37

64

30

28

68

55-69

48

70-74

15

24

60-64

41

30

75-79

6

80-84

65-69

17

26

85 & Over

70-74

Unknown

0

0

0

75-79

80-84

1

It is a noteworthy fact that only 522 notifications were made by private practitioners, an average of 1.5 per practi- tioner.

$5 & Over

-4-444

0

Unknown

0

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