etc.
328
the infants during the first year of life, advising the mothers as to the maner of feeding, Fifteen of these infants have been taken out of the Colony while two have been placed in the Convents. Of the remainder, twenty-two were either still-born or died immediately after birth, and twenty-five others have died from convulsions and other infantile ailments, while one was overlaid and one was a twin which was weakly from birth; the remainder are alive and well. Two only of the mothers have died, one from Bright's Disease and the other from Phthisis. These midwives consult Dr. SIBREE in all complications, an 1 she was
called to 28 of the above cases.
Scarlet Fever.
Scarlet Fever is practically unknown in this Colony, but one case was reportel in January, the patient being a young European girl of 18 years, who ha I lived in the Colony all her life and was employed as a type-writer, she recovered.
INTERMENTS.
The following number of interments in the various cemeteries of the Colony have been recorded during the year :-
Non-Chinese Cemeteries.-Colonial Cemetery,
Roman Catholic Cemetery,
Mahommedan Cemetery,
Jewish Cemetery,
Parsee Cemetery,
133
1,018
57
0
1,210
Chinese Cemeteries.-Mount Caroline Cemetery,
528
Kai Lung Wan
13
Tung Wa Hospital
194
2,716
Infectious Diseases
"
Cheung Sha Wan,
507
"
17
Kennedy Town,
4
Protestant
43
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Shaukiwan
307
>>
Aberdeen
191
"
Stanley
26
Shek O
2
12
Ma Tau Wai
944
Shai Yu Shek
221
:
11
Sham Shui Po
218
12
Christian
32
Kowloon City
22
Eurasian
2
Chung Ling Tin
5
11
5,930
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