CHOLERA IN HONG KONG
Vaccine Now Adequate
(N.Z.P.A-Reuter—Copyright) HONG KONG, Aug. 24. Hong Kong now has enough anti-cholera vaccine to meet foreseeable requirements, according to Dr. D. J. M. Mackenzie, Director of Medical Health Services, today. No further supplies were needed from abroad, and vaccine offers from France, Italy. West Germany, and Formosa tad been refused, he said. With more than half Hong Kong’s three million population immunised, queues before inoculation centres had thinned out, and the Government tad inoculated only 152.770 people yesterday—about 60,000 less than the day before. Cholera toda’y claimed one more life, bringing the death toll since the outbreak to five. Two confirmed cholera cases are dangerously ill, and 350 persons are being held in a quarantine camp. Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports continued to appear in the local press of a widespread cholera epidemic in the South China counties near Macao. One report said 15,000 had died, and the disease was so serious that in Toishan, 475 out of a village of 500 had perished.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29602, 26 August 1961, Page 15
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