392
convents (being brought there sick by poor people) and all children found dead in the streets, harbour, hillsides, etc., by the police, have been born in the Colony but not registered. By adding the number of such children to the number of the registered births a corrected number of births is obtained and from this is calculated a corrected birth rate.
The number of such children in 1906 was 267 males and 316 females, total 583, which being added to the registered births, makes a total of 1,904. The corrected birth-rate is therefore 582 while amongst the Chinese community alone the rate becomes 5:26 instead of 3:35 per 1,000.
The preponderance of male over female registered births is very marked amongst the Chinese there being 199 males to 100 females. Even with the 583 above mentioned unregis- tered births the proportion is 144 males to 100 females.
In the Non-Chinese community the proportion of male births to female births for 1906 is 122 to 100 as compared with 103 males to 100 females in 1905, $3 males to 100 females in 1904 and 111 males to 100 females in 1903 and 1902.
DEATHS.
The deaths registered during the year numbered 8,379. The death-rate was therefore 25.06 per 1,000 These deaths include 842 from Plague, and the death-rate has also been largely augmented by the Typhoon of September 18th, 1906, and by the burning of the steamship Hankon.
The following Table gives the death-rates during the past five census years :-
1881
1891
1896
1901.
1906
Non-Chinese.
18.22
18.20
19.91
20.50
14.02
Chinese.
24.45
24.18
24.75
23.77
26.41
The total number of deaths amongst the Chinese cominunity was 8,087 which gives a death-rate of 26.41 per 1,000.
The deaths registered amongst the Non-Chinese community numbered 292 of which 267 were from the Civil population, 17 from the Army and 8 from the Navy,
This gives a death-rate for the Non-Chinese community of 14.02 per 1,000.
The nationalities of the deceased were as follows:-British 77, Indian 61, Portuguese 59, German 13, Japanese 24, American 9, Malay 19. French 4, Italian 2, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish 5, African 5, South American, Eurasian and Jew 2 each, Parsee 2, Russian, Turkish, and Bavarian 1 each and of unknown nationality 2.
The following Table gives the causes of the 17 deaths among the Troops :—
British Troops.
Indian Troops.
Malaria,
4
Sprue,
Plague....
1
Pemphigus,
Hæmorrhage,
Phthisis,
Heart Disease,
1
Abscess of Liver,....
Indian Women and Children.
8
British Women and Children.
Dysentery,
Inanition,
Heart Disease,
1
Cyanosis,
Dysentery,
1
Diarrhoea,..
3
1
1
1
1
1
3