THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1935.
BIG. DEATH RATE "DUCE, WHEN WILL THE
IN HONGKONG
TERRIBLE MORTALITY OF CHINESE INFANTS
Only One In Three Live
If you are a European resident of Hongkong, you have a better chance of seeing old age than any other per- son in any part of the Far East. But a Chinese, infant has less than one chance in three.
population. however, we strike a terrible picture.
Infant mortality amongst European children under one year of age also compares favourably with Britain, Germany, Belgium, Den- mark, Scotland, North Ire- land, Austria, Bulgaria and others.
This interesting information is gleaned from the 'Annual Re- port of the Director of Medical Services, and from statistics
A Terrible Picture
Nowhere in the world is the infant mortality higher, with the possible exception of China pro- per, for which authentic statis ties are unavailable. A total of 19,516 Chinese deaths were re gistered in Hongkong Inst year. and of these 7,091 were babies!
Last year, over a third of the Chinese children born in Hongkong died before they reached the age of The infant mortality thousand
one year.
compiled by the League of was 347.14 for Nations.
children.
every
This WITH exceeded In
1932
Of every thousandi non-when, of every thousand chlidren, Chinese children born in Hong- kong. 49.78 die before they reach the age of twelve months,
Thla figure compares favour ably with almost every country in the world. Only New Zen- land (31 deaths per thousand), ¦ Australia (41), Netherlands (46) and Iceland (49) boasted better infant mortality #gures last year.
Latest available figures show that the death rate of Infants under one year old per thousand is
as follows in other countries;
United Kingdom
England and Wales
United States
France
Ireland
Austria
Germany
Hulgaria
Hungary
born, 626.28 failed to survive the fest twelve months!
According to statistics supplied by the League of Nations, there is no nation in the world with an in- fant mortality rate as high as this.
The next highest mortality rate ls at Malta, where 307 chil dren out of every thousand die during their first year. Chile
third, with a mortality rate of 235 mille.
With the exception of China, for following are the infant mortality which no figures are available, the figures for the Far East;
Hongkong
મ
Straits Settlements
65
Philippines
+3
Ceylon
76
F. M. States
Jupan
70
103
143
154
FR6
317.3 per mille.
High Death Rate
166
165
138
139
132
The death rate among the Chinese
in Hongkong is also the highest for Asia, with the exception of the
Adult Europeans also have a bet-, Straits Settlements, Ceylon and ter chance of survival hare than
In many other nations.
| ponsibly China,
The Agures (showing the number of deaths per thousand of popula
Straits Settlements C'byJun
The death rate per thousand oftion are as follows: non-Chinese residents in Hongkong Inst year was 16,2 as compared with the Australian death rate of 8.7 per thousand and the New Zealand rate i of 8 per thousand, these two nations being the healthiest In the world.
The death rate among the Hong- kong European population is lower ; than in Bulgaria (16) Spain (16.3) and Portugal (17.6),
Hongkong
Philippines P.M.S.
Japan Cyprus
23.2
221
21.13
20.
18.
17.76 17.1
Of non-Asian countries, the only mes with a higher mortality rate than Hongkong are Egypt, Chile,
When we turn to the Chinese and Porto Rico.
DUMB BELLES LETTRES NOW IN BOOK FORM
Miss Juliet Lanwell has one of the most joyous hobbies in the world--she collects unconsciously "crazy" letters. For some time they were published in the fougkong Telegraph, Here are a few taken from a book she has just published.
Judge Ben Lindsey, Denver, Colorado.
Dear Judge Lindsey, Will you tell me where I can get a Compassionate marriage and what it will cost, and also like to know where I would get a com- passionate girl,
Sincerely yours, Thomas Y-
Unsuitable
Sava Cola, Ladies Tailor, New York.
Dear Sir,My boy friend thinks ho likes tailored suits. But may- be if he sees me in one he'll think of my as his pal, and I don't want he should think of me that way. -Eliza J
Weaver Piano Company,
CANNON TALK?"
MUSSOLINI SEMPRE RACION
Patriotic and martial demonstrations in Rome: Fracista
in the Piazza Colonna with placards inscribed “Duce, when will the enmon talk?” And similar sentimenta,
WIDOWED
Million Population For Centenary
|HONGKONG WILL SOON
BECOME SEVEN FIGURE CITY
I will take Hongkong less than its first century of ex- istence to reach a population exceeding a million.
Official estimates place Hong- kong's population at the end of 1934 at 944, 492.
At the end of the current year it will exceed 960,000, and at the end of next year will be within ten thousand of the mil- lion mark.
Of the estimated civilian popula- tion of 941,492 at the end of last year, 923,584, or over 97 per cent. was Chinese, while 20,908, or 2.21* per cent., was non-Chinese.
Slightly over 4,000 Europeans and Americans reside in the Urban area of Hongkong.
Kowloon proves a more popular residential area, 4,702 Europeans and Americans residing on the mininland. Of other non-Chinese races, 5,704 reside in the Urban aren of Victoria, 115 reside in villages on the Island and 5,868 reside on the mainland.-
The majority of Hongkong's Chinese population resides on the island, 373,199 making their homes in the Urban area and 47,059 re- aiding in the villages. On the other hand, 300,550 Chinese live in Kowloon and New Kowloon, while an additional 102,776 reside in the | New Territories.
Only 25 Europeans and Ameri- cans are listed as living in the New Territories.
During 1934 three times the total number of people resiling in Hong- kong arrived and departed by river steamer or railway, 2,789,039 ar- riving and 2,811,100 departing.
Ex-Munition Girl Fights War Office For 16 Years
MISS
[ISS MAUREEN ANNE MACMAHON has the fight- ing Irish spirit. She has been fighting the War Office for what she calls "simple justice” for sixteen years.
She will fight on, she says, until
she gets redress for sufferings which, she declares, were the re- sult of her war services,
When the call for munition workers came, she left her job as a clerk to work in a filing factory at Hayes, Middlesex. Later she was transferred to other factories and "was mide an inspector........
Her health, she declares, WAR undermined by T.N.T. poisoning. Both hands were injured by ex- plosions; the sight of one eye was damaged by an injury in an air raid.
MRS, DERER WERBER .... "AI I want now is to forget.
1 am leaving for Scotland." .The widow of Lt. Webber, formerly of | Hongkong, who added that she had known Derek for seven years. "Both our parents knew of thei All her representations for com- marriage. It was all above boardpensation have been rejected. MISS MAUREEN ANNE MAC- and no secret.
It was not a run-Members of Parliament have in- MAHON says she will fight away marriage, as has been sug- terceded for her in vain. gested."
my hat backwards because the THERE'S WOLFRAM front part back makes the back front more becominger. Is it a
IN THEM HILLS mistake?-Bella F
A. J. Child & Sous, St. Louis, Gentlemen, Would you kindly ship at once a half-dozen extra heavy oak chairs as you shipped three years ago last September.
This is a mighty good chair, and
terribly handy in a fight-C. D.
礳
Not Vulnerable
Ely Culbertson, Bridge World. Dear Sir,--When I go to a dance
MINERS MAKE MONEY
IN HONGKONG
ALTHOUGH there is no gold
in them thar hills in the New Territories there is wol- fram,
Last year there was a re- crudescence of mining enterprise
I am not very popular. The boys in Hongkong, and, because of the don't seem to care for me.
I am just as good-looking as chief source of the world's other girls and I dress well, and it makes me feel bad to have to set supply, it became possible to profitably work deposits of wol fram ore.
Gentlemen, I got a cross,letter from you wanting my piano on my sent... because I have not paid my bl! So if you could tell me the yet. My business is so bad now I reason I would like to know very can't pay.
well-Ella F Surely you wouldn't take this plane, which is the only one I have, when you have so many planos Cleveland, Ohlo. there at the factory. Sam p.
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Tropical Paint & Oil Co..
Dear Sirs & Gentlemen,-Oh! I think your paint is lovely. This
She claims that certiflentes
which would have established ARE YOU SURE?
her claim were sent by a factory
Another set of "brain teasers". superintendent to the wrong The answers are on Page 12 department and have since 1-Which is correct, "Hong vanished. She has tried in vain Kong". "Hongkong", or
Hong- kong"? to trace them. Now she is poor.
She lives in a tluy back room near Victoria Station.
2. What English Queen had the mast children?
3.--Hongkong people, advertis- ing their departure from the Colony, place the three letters "P.P.C." on the bottom left-hand She looks ill and weak. She
of their visiting cards. inherited £700 from her mother. What do they mean?
corner
It has all gont. She said she} 4. Place the following in their had spent more than £300 in } right order: doctors' bills,
(u) Canadu
(a) Common-
wealth of (6) Union of (b) New Guinea te: Dominion of (c) South Africa (d) Mandated (d) Australía
Territory of
Teard streamed down her drawn tramped the streets in bedroom monopoly established in China, checks as she told how she had
slippers for weeks, until her feet (e) Territory of (0) Papua were blistered, how she had 5-If letter was addressed sheltered in night-ayatchmen's from, say, Canada to John Smith, China, where would it be sent by the postal authorities?
Mining permits are issued by the Hongkong Government, but many fossickera. work illicitly.
-Resisted The Police
boxes.
The War Office says:
G.-What ruling King succeeded "Migs MacMahon's claims have his own son as ruler of his coun-
try? received full consideration, and,
7-18 Newfoundland a part of after reference to the Treasury the Dominion of Canada? The Hawaiian Electric Company. week I painted my fence green, my
"During 1934 'privateers' in Medical Referee in accordance 8. What native-born American Dear SO & SO-Hear is John porch is yellow and red, and the remote places occasioned the Police with the Government scheme for WAB Kanuki Telling you about the lighthouse is bright blue.
three times Lord Chancellor She no work. John Kanuki,
Jan District Office staff some an compensation contracting out of
of England? I am a widow lady of forty-five, xiety to keep in checka, as they the Workmen's Compensation Act, Canton to Rangoon, through which and I lost my dear husband when were disposed to resist If surround- he fell off the house roof.
ed," says the Annual Report for 1900, the decision was reached of these countries must a travoller Now I am going to be married, the New Territorica:
that any disability from which ngain to the man next door.
Sumatra
Full Stop
(Letter received by an Editor.) How long should a novel be? (Ansiper.)
191-
There is no statutory require We were neighbours for years, mont, but 85,000 words is a good but he paid no attention to me average length for a short popular until he saw my house painted so novel,
pretty and my now furniture. Wired reply to the Editor.) THANK HEAVEN I'M FINISHED Mme. Ara, Hats, 57th-street. Dear Mme.I wear the front of
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He came in to talk about it, and we got real well acquainted, and now we're getting married, and it's all on account of your lovely paint,
Amolla T-------
were two murders, arising, It Is not resulted from an injury by "In the case of one mine thore Miss Mackahon has suffered has suspected, out of a quarrel over accident within the meaning of the the proceeds."
Act.
Miners also came into conflict with villagers over the pollution of fore, be awarded to her and no "Compensation could not, there- water courses and drinking water, cutting of trees, and damage to reason has been since found for
changing this decision."
crops
9. To travel overland from
pass?
Siam
F. M. States Formosa French Indo Borneo
China
10.---Which was the first British Colony to receive full Dominion" status?
11. What is Lowls with Harris? 12.-Who wrote the words of the hymn "Onward Christian Sol- diers"?
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To Hongkong and Her People
Before leaving Hongkong to-morrow for Japan i beg to express my hearty thanks to the public of Hongkong for the wild and warm recoption they accorded to me and my Company... thank also the Authorities, the Pross and the Management of the King's Theatre who give mo the possibility to presont my show in Hongkong. Wherever I go around the world, I shall always remember and talk about this country and her sympathetic people.
Próf. C. W. Doorlay.
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Don't miss your last chance to see the biggest, snappiest and most extraordinary show, that over visited the East,
If you miss it—you'll miss a great chance
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