ENG-1955 — Page 134

Hong Kong Year Books 香港年報 All

PUBLIC HEALTH

Infectious Diseases

1954 and 1955

Chinese

Non-Chinese Yearly Total

Deaths

97

Diseases

1954 1955

1954 1955 1954 1955

1954 1955

Amoebic dysentery

188

171

48

39 236 210

6

Bacillary dysentery

509

500

23

24

535

524

34

37

(clinical)

3

3

.

+

Chickenpox

186

276

47

104

233

380

1

Diphtheria

1,095

831

9

9 1,104

840

116

71

!

Enteric fever....

1.076

725

23

10 1,099

735

83

58

Malaria

452

220

23

9

475

229

16

9

Measles

570

444

27

99

597

543

126

88

Meningitis

14

11

14

11

3

3

Poliomyelitis

20

35

29

16

49

51

3

Puerperal fever.........

8

8

3

1

Rabies (human).

3

3

3

(animal)........

(9) (11)

Scarlet fever

18

27

18

20

45

1

Tuberculosis

12,447 14,060

61

88 12,508 14,148 2,876 2,810

2

Typhus (urban)............................

(scrub)

2

ลง

2

2

Whooping cough

123

199

7

14 130 213

1

Total.......

16,709 17,510

299

430 17,008 17,940 3,276 3,095

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