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D. Births.
22. Table 2 shows the number of births recorded with the birth rate per mille according to the population estimates from 1984, when the present Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance was introduced, until 1948.
C. Dearhi.
25. The following table shows the deaths registered and the death rate per mille based on the estimated population.
TABLE 3
TABLE 2
Year
No. of Deaths Registered
Year
No. of Births Registered
Birth rate using estimated population (1)
Birth rate using estimated
Death rate using estimated population (1)
Death rate using estimated population (2)
population (2)
1926
12,516
17.62
15.9
1927
14.761
19.03
18.5
1928
14.735
19.21
15.06
1934
20.886
22.11
22.11
1929
17.585
21.89
16.77
1930
16,208
10.4
15.14
1935
25.037
25.9
25.9
1931
18.797
22.38
24.08
1932
19.820
24.74
24.74
1936
27,383
27.0
27.8
1933
18.181
22.11
22.11
1934
19.766
20.93
20.99
1937
32.303
25.19
32.1
1935
22,133
22.90
22.90
1936
20.350
28.80
26.60
1938
35.809
24.3
34.9
1937
34.635
34.4
1938
38.818
20.25
37.7
1930
46.675
26.7
44.4
1939
46.203
27.6
46
1940
€1.010
39.48
50.9
1940
45,084
24.73
41.2
1941
61,824
1942
83.435
1941
45.000
27.44
$3.29
1942
10.343
Not available
Not available
37.4
Not available
(Japanese occupation)
Not available
(Japanesc
occupation}
50
1943
40.117
+
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(Japanese occupation)
1944
24.936
1945
23.089
1943
20.732
1946
18.633
1947
12.231
1044
13.687
1948
13.434
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107
7.6
7.5
14.2
10.9 11.9
1945
3,712
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11
1948
31.098
20:1
1947
42,473
24.3
35
1938
47.475
26.4
42.2
23.
24.
26.6
In addition 1022 post registered births were recorded.
Legislation was introduced in December, 1947 to permit re-registration of births recorded in the registers which were destroyed or lost during the Japanese occupation. A total of 438 births were registered under this Ordinance.
26. The remarkable fall in the death rate in the post war years ja in keeping with similar changes in many other parts of the world. Local explanations for this fall are probably the definite improvements in the nutritional standards in the ** under privileged members of the community and the extensive inoculation and vaccination campaigns which have played some part in keeping the Colony free from cholera and smallpáx during 1947-48.
IK.
27. In December 1947 legislation was introduced to permit re-registration of deaths recorded in the lost registers as was done in the case of births and 11 deaths were registered under this Ordinance.
28. The Post registered deaths for 1948 amounted to 80.
29. The graph in Annexure D shows a comparison between the deaths at different ages with the age distribution found in the censuses of 1921 and 1931.