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The deaths of persons employed in the Mercantile Marine or in Foreign Navies which were registered in the Colony were 23 and their causes as follows:-
Dysentery,...
2
Phthisis,
Small-pox,..
Pneumonia,
Heart disease,
Apoplexy,
Cancer of stomach,
2
Embolism,
Bright's disease,
2
Tuberculosis,
Drowning,
Beri-beri,
Fracture of skull,
1
Syphilis,
Rupture of urethra,
2
1
1
1
The total number of deaths therefore which occurred amongst the Non-Chinese resident civil population was 244 and allowing 1,452 for the Non-Chinese floating population this gives a death-rate of 22.76 per 1,000 for the resident Non-Chinese civil population.
Sixteen deaths from Plague occurred amongst the Non-Chinese community comprising one British Soldier and fifteen civilians of the following nationalities :----Indian 6, Portuguese 3, Malay 2, Japanese 2, Eurasian 1 and British 1.
Table I shows the number and causes of deaths registered during the year.
The following Table of population, births and deaths is given for the purpose of ready comparison with similar tables given in the reports from other Colonies:---
Europeans anl Whites.
Africans.
East Indians.
Chinese and Malays.
Mixed and Coloured
TOTAL.
Number of Inhabitants at 1906 Census
12,925
13
4,229 307,701
4,170
329,038
of Births
in
143
43
ور
"
1,046
87
1,821
of Deaths in
113
64
"
19
8,106
91
8,379
of Immigrants in
33
134,912
**
of Emigrants in
D
:
76,725
J
of Inhabitants in 1905,
(Estimated),
Increase,
07'
Decrease......
10,835
2,090
20
3,907 360,228
2,860 377,850
322
1,310
7
52,527
48,812
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
During the year the bodies of 355 persons in the City of Victoria and of 510 persons in Kowloon, who had died without having been attended by a medical man, were inspected by the Sanitary staff, and enquiries made from the relatives as to the probable cause of death, the bodies being sent to the Mortuary whenever there was any reason to suspect that the deaths were due to infectious disease.
AGE DISTRIBUTION OF DEATHS.
The number of deaths of infants under one year of age was 1,623 or 19.4 per cent. of the total deaths, as compared with 23.3 per cent. drging 1905.
The Infant Mortality amongst the Non Chinese community during the year was 157 per 1,000 as compared with 119 per 1,000 in 1905.