DISTRICTS.
RETURNS OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS FOR THE YEAR 1887.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN COMMUNITY.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.
BIRTHS.
CHINESE.
DEATHS.
GRAND TOTAL.
BIRTHS.
DEATHS.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 14TH JULY, 1888. 739
5,317
Boys. Girls. Total. Males. Females. Total.
Boys.
Girls.
Total. Males.
Sex
Females. Unknown.
Total.
Victoria,.
100
90
190
176
67
243
725
583
1,308
2,444
1,802
4.
4,250
1,498
4.493
Kanlung,
2
心
4
1
35
28
63
273
142
10
425
67
426
Shaukiwán,
49
37
86
133
90
228
86
224
Aberdeen,
19
:
:
17
36
84
59
144
36
145
Stanley,
:
8
10
18
19
29
18
29
TOTAL,...
DEATHS.
British and FOREIGN COMMUNITY.
102
92
323
Annual Birth-Rate | Annual Death-Rate
per 1,000 for the Year.
194
179
67
246
836
675
1,51 2,953 2,103
15
5,071
1,705
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
ESTIMATED POPULATION.
per 1,000
for the Year.
Males. Females. Total.
Europeans, exclusive of Portuguese,....... 76
Of the Deaths in Victoria, there were in the-
British and Foreign Community,
10,552
18.38
23.31
Portuguese,
62
Italian Convent,
163
394
001
Indians, &c.,
59
Chinese.
.175,410
8.61
28.90
Asile de la Ste. Enfance,
168
291
459
Non-Residents,
49
Tung Wa Hospital,
944
248
1,192
Whole Population,......
*185,962
9.16
28.59
TOTAL.
246
TOTAL,
1,275
933
2,208
* This does not include the moving population.
Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 8th March, 1888.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Registrar General.