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It is impossible to give exact figures for the series at this moment but up to midnight on 31.12.50 192 cases of typhoid fever had been treated with chloromycetin and there had been 24 deaths in this group. This gives a mortality rate of 12.5% for the treated cases. I attach little importance to this figure. Chloromycetin is an effective and a specific treatment for the enteric fevers which nevertheless remain a most severe and dangerous group of diseases. Many of the treated patients were admitted as late as the 30th or even 40th day of the disease and had already suffered so much damage that the only cause for surprise is that the total mortality figure is not much higher.

As this is only a preliminary and necessarily brief account of the use of chloromycetin in Hong Kong, it would be out of place to embark on a detailed discussion of bacteriological findings, rates of sterilization of blood and marrow by chloromycetin and so on. One final point, however, is worthy of emphasis and that is that in no single instance have toxic effects, due to chloromycetin, been noted. The drug has done much here to lessen the burden which typhoid fever imposes on the physicians and nurses who tend the disease.

(Sgd.) P. B. WILKINSON,

Medical Specialist.

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ANNEXURE E.

BIRTHS AND DEATHS.

1947 to 1950.

Births

Deaths

MONTH

1947

1948

1949

1960

1947

1948

1949

1950

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

www

December

Total

3,413 3,884 4.269 5.112 2,840 3,655

4.126

4.422 2,751 3.674 4,063 4.761 2.819 3.271 3.346 3,027 3.041 3.451 3,010 3,257 3,723 4.004 3.000 4,235 4,870 1.215 1.286 1,597 3,828 4.129 5.038 5.364 1.006 1,283 1,504 4.199 4.617 6,648 5.765

1,089 1.332 4,507 4.433 5.738 5,763 1,035 3.795 4.875 5,656 6.054 4.355 4.730 5.582 5.704

42.473 47.476 54.774 60,600

1.168

1,086

1.240 1.363

1,244

1,096 1,200

1.391

1,278

4,097 1.104

BBT

3,938 1.022 4,750 1.181

979 1.230 1.386

1.226 1.342 1.112 1,194 1.567 1.109 1,388

1.558

1,970

1,570

1.406

1,593

1.164 1,414 1,706

971 983

1.051 1.069

1,416 1,427

1.485 1,592

13.231

13.424

16.287 18,405

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ANNEXURE F.

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.

Notifications and Deaths-1946 to 1950.

Total No. of deaths at all ages

1948

1947

1948

1949

1950

10

19

10

92

CPE 500

2,422

317

1

77

Z

1.998

Yellow Fever

0

12

4

6I

108'2

—

100

L

0

12

4

1

25

1

214

4,855

10

TE

I

0

態

Q

10

11

7,510

14 9,067

1.306

1.818

129

+

1,863

1,901

2.611

3,263

0

0

306

16

0

0

NO. E:-Malaria not notified after May, 1948 and again notified since 20.6.50.

Whooping Cough and Infantile Paralysis notifiable discasos since 23.10.47 and 30.7.48, respectively,

Total No. of Notifications

Diseases

1946

1947

1948

DÉGI

SPOT

E

71

Dysentery (Bacillary and

1

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