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The deaths registered among the non-Chinese numbered 236, of which 189 were from the Civil population, 34 from the Army (including five deaths of men who belonged to the North China command and six camp followers three of whom belong to the North China command, and 2 children) and 13 from the Navy; this is equal to a death-rate of 12:48 per 1,000. The nationalities of these deaths were as follows:-British 74, Indian 70, Portuguese 40, Japanese 16, French 9, Malay and Philippino 8, German 7, American, Austrian and Peruvian 2 each, Norwegian Italian, Russian, African, Brazilian and Chilian 1 each.
The following Table gives the causes of the 26 deaths occurring among th troops :-
British.
Indian.
Malarial Fever,
2
Malarial Fever,
5
Pneumonia,
1
Phthisis,
3
Acute Rheumatism,
1
Gun Shot Wounds,.
3
Alcoholism,.......
1
Pneumonia,
1
Rupture of Spleen and Liver,... 1
Bronchitis,
1
Dysentery,
1
Sprue,
1
Heart Failure,
1
Anæmia,
1
Debility,
1
Suicide,
1
Melancholia,
1
6
20
The deaths among the camp followers were as follows:-Northern command: Phthisis 3; Southern command: Syphilis 1, Anæmia 1, Hemiplegia 1; while the two deaths of children were from Immaturity at birth.
The thirteen deaths occurring in the China Squadron which were regis- tered in the Colony were as follows:
Enteric Fever,
Phthisis,
Pneumonia,
Appendicitis,
Dysenteric Diarrhoea,
3
Malarial Fever,
1
2
Fracture of Skull,
1
Drowning,
1
1
.1
Gun Shot Wound of Head, Scalds,
1
1
The deaths occurring in persons employed in the Mercantile Marine or in Foreign Navies numbered 29 and the causes of death were as follows:-
Cerebral Compression,...
Enteric Fever,.
1
1
Phthisis,
3
Acute Nephritis,
1
Pneumonia,
2
Bright's Disease,.
1
Bronchitis,
1
Fractured Skull,
1
Heart Disease,
3
Bullet Wounds,
2
1
Dysentery,
1
Alcoholism,
3
Intestinal Intus-susception,
Meningitis,
2
Poisoning, Beri-Beri,.
1
1
Dementia,
1
Sunstroke,
Old Age, Unknown,
1
1
The death from Beri-Beri occurred in an Indian.
The total number of deaths therefore which occurred among the non-Chinese resident Civil population was 160, and allowing 1,080 for the non-Chinese floating population this is equal to a death-rate among the resident non-Chinese Civil population of 17:58 per 1,000.
The reason why the death-rate among the non-Chinese Civil community is slightly higher than it is among the Chinese community is because many of the Chinese when taken ill leave at once for their own country, (the cost of steamer passage to Canton being only a few cents), whereas the Indians and Malays who live in this Colony, under very similar conditions to the Chinese, are unable, on