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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT

is available to a lesser degree from other official and non-official

sources.

One large new clinic is at present under construction and others are being planned as it is considered that expansion of the ambula- tory treatment scheme is likely to yield the best return under existing epidemiological conditions.

The following table contrasts the mortality figures for tuber- culosis during the past five years:

Estimated

Year

mid-year

Percentage

Death rate

population per 100,000

of all deaths

TUBERCULOSIS

Percentage of T.B. deaths below 5

registered

years of age

1954

2,277,000

126.3

14.9

31.2

1955

2,340,000

120.0

14.7

28.0

1956

2,440,000

107.0

13.6

25.0

1957

2,583,000

103.6

13.9

21-2'

1958

+

2,748,000

83.8

11.2

19.6

Venereal Diseases. The number of cases suffering from infectious forms of venereal disease who present themselves for treatment has continued to decline; it is believed that this reflects a falling incidence in the general population.

The table below gives the figures of cases of syphilis treated at all Social Hygiene clinics during the last 5 years:

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Primary Syphilis

Secondary Syphilis

Early latent Syphilis

Late latent Syphilis

Early congenital Syphilis

1954

1955

1956

1957

1958

393

153

93

17

9

!

54

34

20

7

3

2,209

1,044

733

450

417

3,983

24

2,853

19

2,616

2,532

2,766

19

3

7

The incidence of other venereal infections treated at clinics has also shown a considerable decline as the following figures indicate :

Gonorrhoea

Chancroid

Lymphogranuloma Venereum

1955

1956

1957

1958

11,309

10,609

9,881

8,360

2,468

1,614

689

294

249

140

178

91

For treatment, penicillin in its various forms remains the standard

therapy for both syphilis and gonorrhoea.