74. The following table sets our the figures of infant and neo-natal deaths in detail:
77. Details of the principal causes of mortality are set out in the following table:
TABLE 4
TABLE 1
Causer of Deaths
Age Period
1955
1955
1956
1957
1958
V-1 day
224
212
Preumonia (all forms)
3,821
Number of Deaths
1956
1958 1957 3.548 3,836 4,456
209
Tuberculosis of respiratory system
1-7 days
909
1,091
1,101
1.204
Tuberculosis (other forms)
1,925 885
..
1-4 weeks
682
1,039
1,007
1,079
Gastro-enteris and colitis
2.264
1,901 728 2.361
2,069
1,827
605 1,714 1,650
475
4 weeks 3 months
1,148
961
974
973
Malignant acoplasmns
1.190
1.262 1,380
3-6 months
1,121
944
893
846
Premature births
912
982
guy
1.704 859
6-9 months
957
904
763
635
ปี
9-12 months
691
744
576
740
Total under 1 year
6,012
5,895
5,436
3,786
Infant Mortality rate
66.4
60.9
55.A
54.3
Urban Areas
No. of deaths under 4 weeks 2.095
2,342
2330
2,492
Meo-naal Mortality rate
་
23.1
24.2
23.8
21.4
75. There has been a considerable drop in the maternal mortality rate from 1.06 per thousand deliveries in 1957 to 0.83 per thousand deliveries in 1958. The following table sets out the maternal mortality figures for the years 1955-1958 in detail:
Tvar
RELA
TABLE 2
Inter.co Marradio Rate
Rate per No. of
1,000 leather
Total Live
coma Sent
Birther
Prejchuncy and Child beardma
Kore per No. of
Abalon
1,000
Kate per 1,000
deaths
d'acc
ELA
births
1953
90,511
1.250
$1.361
104
1.39
3
0.03
107
1.16
1956
96,748
Vak
97,734
16
0.
2
01.02
0.90
1957
97.134 1,245
99,070
100
1.00
0.0
LOS
1.06
1958
106,624 1,397 100.931
EA
(EI
0.04
92
0.05
76.
The following table shows deaths from toxaemias of pregnancy during the year 1955-1958,
Year
1955
IIL
1956
1957
1958
BP
TABLE 3
Deaths from Toxaemias of Pregnancy
Total births (including still births)
Death rate per thousand
91,761
0.5
97.734
0.4
32
99,079
0.3
28
107,921
0.3
16
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II. WORK OF THE HEALTH DIVISION
HYGIENE AND SANITATION
78. The need for improved environmental sanitation in the urban areas of Hong Kong and Kowloon continues to increase and such work requires constant reinforcements of supervisory staff in order to maintain even minimum standards.
79. As previously, the duties of the Health Officers were mainly concerned with the public health aspect of environmental sanitation, food hygiene, infectious disease control and the guidance of the Health Inspectorate in carrying out their day-to-day functions.
80. Routine house inspection continued during the year and this opportunity to gain easy and regular access to householders provided an effective means of distribution of health education leaflets dealing with infectious diseases, immunization, pure food, and the proper dis- posal of refuse. Some 40,000 of these leaflets were distributed and much advice was also given verbally to householders during these inspections. 81. A high proportion of milk and ice cream samples taken for examination continued to show unsatisfactory bacteriological results, Some 29% of milk samples and 25% of ice cream samples were below the required standards; a higher incidence of unsatisfactory samples was found in Kowloon than in Hong Kong.
82. Special attention was paid to the sale of cut fruit and the control of cold drinks and ice cream in the latter half of the year, following the notification of an epidemic of cholera in Thailand.
83. Four outbreaks of food poisoning were reported during the year. One involved five children who had eaten ham and egg sandwiches: there was no residue recovered for analysis but gastric lavage resulted
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