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Attached are the usual two tables shewing the number of deaths among the European and Chinese communities from diseases which may be attributable to filth.
DEATHS AMONG EUROPEANS (BRITISH AND FOREIGN),
FEVERS.
VOMITING
YEARS.
Enteric.
Simple Continued.
DIARRHEA. CHOLERA. AND
PURGING.
TOTAL.
Typhus.
1873,
6
2
17
25
...
1874,
1
4
17
26
1875,
1
5
18
24
...
1876,
1
9
14
24
...
1877,
8
10
27
...
1878,
3
15
2
6
29
--
...
1879,
3
21
14
38
...
1880,
1
12
I
10
24
1881,
2
17
10
29
...
1882,
10
13
13
37
1883,
1
9
1884,
7
4
9
12
19
23
1885,
7
11
6
19
46
1886,
5
8
5
18
...
1887,
7
10
2
25
1888,
5
4
16
25
50
1889,
2
3
10
1
16
■1890,
4
12
1891,
1
4
15
1892,
1
...
6
7
1893, 1894, 1895,
One case of Choleraic Diarrhea not included.
5
1
...
11
17
4
2
9
19
DEATHS AMONG CHINESE.
FEVERS.
YEARS.
DIARRHEA.
CHOLERAIC DIARRHEA.
Enteric.
Simple Continued.
VOMITING
AND PURGING.
TOTAL.
Typhus.
1873,
12
96
16
1874,
125
46
195 231
:
70
1875,
31
291
1876,
94
343.
1877,
145
370
1878,
89
481
1879,
116
733
21
1880,
309
373
1881,
438
168
38
1882,
679
71
1883,
262
571
1884,
132
600
1885,
105
755
1886,
1887,
6
6
772
10
441
25
....
1888,
2
299
1889,
1
363
1890,
1
342
1891,
6
427
1892,
446
1893,
448
1894,
2
1895,
10
433 199
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2
288
259
...
8
311
33
701
608
...
348
---
319
402
612
696
***
834 1,304
1,478
1,080
435
...
465
...
1,079
1,215
3
660
1,496
2
301
•
..-
1,035
561
176
1,604
326
19
1,136
276
13
761
...
361
17
236
917
180
7
551
216
1
562
329
771
231
677
294
742
312
1
4
752
264
13
487
I am afraid that for the purposes of vital statistics the table giving deaths amongst the Chinese is practically worthless. To prove this it is only necessary to compare the return for the last two years, the idea that so many deaths are due to Simple Continued Fever is ridiculous.
An improvement in this respect may be anticipated in course of next few years after the passing of the new Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance