527
Indian Soldiers.
Indian Wives and Children.
Dysentery,
9
Inanition,..
Diarrhoea,..
1
Bronchitis,
Malarial Fever,
.10
Dentition,
Syphilis,
2
Enteritis,
1
1
1
1
Alcoholic Poisoning,
1
Gunshot Wound, (Suicide),
1
Debility,...
4
Anæmia,
..10
Pericarditis,
1
Bronchitis,
2
Pneumonia,
8
Phthisis,
.10
Asthma,
1
Pulmonary Embolism,
1
Enteritis,
1
Hepatitis,.
2
Bright's Disease,
1
Acute Nephritis,
1
Scurvy,
1
Tumour of Brain,.
68
The fourteen deaths occurring in the China Squadron which were registered in this Colony were as follows:-
Enteric Fever,
Drowning,
Heart Disease,.
Aneurysm, (Aortic),.
5
Pneumonia,
2
Phthisis,
1
Nephritis, (Acute),.
1
2
1
2
The deaths occurring in persons employed in the Mercantile Marine or in Foreign Navies were 31 in number and the causes of death were as follows:--
Enteric Fever,.
Small-pox,
Diarrhoea,.
Dysentery,. Beri-Beri,
Heat Apoplexy,.
Fracture of Skull,
Peritonitis, (Injury),
Apoplexy,
Tetanus, (Traumatic),
Paralysis (Bulbar),
.4
Forward,.
.20
Heart Disease,
1
Pneumonia,
1
2
Phthisis,
2
.1
Empyæma,
1
2
Gastric Ulcer,
1
.3
Enteritis,
1
.1
Pancreatitis,..
1
3
.1
Hepatic Abscess,.. Jaundice,
1
1
.1
Debility,.
1
31
Carried forward.............20
The death from Beri-Beri occurred in a Japanese.
The total number of deaths, therefore, which occurred among the non-Chinese resident Civil community was 270; allowing 1,016 for the non-Chinese floating population, this is equal to a death-rate among the resident non-Chinese population of 31.6 per 1,000.
The principal causes of death among the non-Chinese resident Civil community were as follows:---
Bubonic Fever, (Plague),
Phthisis,
Malarial Fever,
Pneumonia,
Injuries,
Heart Disease,
.47
.34
Dysentery, Enteric Fever,
.18
General Tuberculosis,
.13
Apoplexy,
.12
Bright's Disease,
.11
Old Age,
9
7
7
7
6
6
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
During the year there were 563 deaths registered in the City of Victoria, of Chinese who had not been attended by a medical man, as compared with 533 during the previous year and 463 in 1899; in every such case the relatives of the deceased are interviewed and the dead bodies inspected