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The age and sex distribution of notifications of respiratory tuber. culosis are as follows:

NOTIFICATIONS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

1948

1950.

1950

Age Group

1949

1943

Males

Females

Persons M. F.

P.

M.

F

P.

Under 1

59

118

38

I

77

79

156

40

88

63

156

38

63

58

124

28

4

64

42

Hom

126

པའི་གཡས་

97

75

172

TO

10-14

66

34

100

46

13.

-19

199

115

314

167

20-24

SHUL

246

952

630 220

215-20

377

1,285

30-9

803

403

1,206

707

35-39

605

213

978 607 316

4044

480

226

705

40-40

321

177

499

254

50--54

217

163

380

191 116

65-09

114

91

205

117

40-04

ALAL

08

72

140

61

80-69

45

47

92

37

70-74

13

£1

A

76-79

2

2

80-84

85 & over.. Unknown

10

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42

128

206

125

34

70

55

95 54

140

278

651

299

960

250

TBT 310 1,097

1.342 689 2,031

1,060 026

856

508 1,364

362 337 500

390

367 269 690

307

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121

128

249

112)

મહુ

20 28

58

= ONG

3

3

77

다

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600

400

200

· Morbillik ty" "du. Mortality

Respiratory Tuberculosis

15.

20

251

JA

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150

0 F $

As there is no information available as to the age and sex dis- tribution of the total population, it is not possible to produce standardized morbidity and mortality rates. Recently, however, a representative sample of the population above the age of 12 years was analysed which gives some indication of the relative age and sex distribution of the adult population only. Against these figures have been set the actual deaths and notifications recorded in the Colony, adjustment being made in each are group according to sex preponderance, and the figures thus obtained standardized to a fixed and equal proportion of the population for each age group. The final figures obtained give an indication of the relative morbidity and mortality for males and females for equal number of individuals of each sex in each and all age groups. The results obtained are shown graphically:

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It will be seen that morbidity and mortality are greater in males

at all ages, that maximum incidence in both sexes is in the 30-34 age group and that deaths increase steadily as age advances.

HOSPITAL TREATMENT.

The total number of beds set aside for the treatment of tuber- culosis is only a small fraction of the requirement. There is no organized treatment for tuberculosis other than respiratory tuberculosis. The greater part of the treatment of respiratory cases is done in Government and Government aided hospitals and in Ruttonjee Sanatorium operated by the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association working in collaboration with the Government Scheme. The distribution of beds is as follows:

Queen Mary Hosp. Lai Chi Kok Hosp.

(a) Govt. Hospitals

St. John Hosp., Cheung Chat

(b) Govt. Subsidized Hospitals (c) Voluntary-Ruttonjee Sanatorium

79

58

202

31

291

110

130

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