CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]

A SUMMARY OF DEATHS AND THEIR CAUSES REGISTERED DURING THE YEAR 1886.

EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN

TOTAL GRAND TOTAL 20 507 523 523 701 421 1,123 I 749 749 969 969 1 写: 40 780 51 29 14 1,229 262 15 46 13 10 1

CHINESE COMMUNITY.

COMMUNITY Victoria District Kaulung District Shankiwán District Aberdeen District Stanley District Army Navy TOTAL GRAND TOTAL Estimated Population 6,200 119,000 20,240 Estimated Strength Land. 12,240. Boat. Land. 5,000. Boat. Land. 4,620. Boat. Land. 4,000. Boat. Land. 2,500. Boat. Land. 3,500. Boat. 1,000. 1,000. DISEASE Dysentery, Diarrhoea 106 209 NN 2 3 7 2 18 25 15 30 130 331 Bowel Complaints, Cholera, Choleraic, Vomiting & Purging, Colic 1 16 20 Fever, Purperal Spotted, Simple Continued, Remittent & Malariai, Intermittent, Fevers, Typhoid, with Rigors, Ague 3 471 35 Sinall-pox 2 86 35 54 41 16 6 2 43 12 Measles Typhus Typho-malarial 1 Throat Affections, Diptheria, Quinsy 520 2 I Chest Affections (Phthisis, Bronchitis, Pleuro-pueumonía) 23 548 228 23 28 12 2 29 13 15 17 23 13 Convulsions 9 Other Causes 682 20 18 98 st 1 3 759 15 29 11 6 19 178 9 11 TOTAL 3,992 112 213 122 139 106

Sanitary Board Room, Hongkong, 1st February, 1887.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT WITH LAST YEAR.

(EUROPEAN COMMUNITY.-CIVIL.)

Bowel Complaints Fevers Throat Affections Chest Affections Convulsions Other Causes Total Deaths Death-Rate per 1,000 per Annum 1885 8 13 15.4 25.1 12 21.3 23.2 19 14 36.7 27.1 2 2 ... *** ... 1 ... ... ... ... 12 6 13 12 25.1 28.2 1886

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT WITH LAST YEAR.

(CHINESE COMMUNITY.)

Convulsions Throat Affections Chest Affections Bowel Complaints Fevers Other Causes Total Deaths Death-Rate per 1,000 per Annum 1885 56 39 48 Not known 35 Not known 50 63 43 117 577 46 + 48 78 45 63 59 52 115 1886

Sanitary Board Room, Hongkong, 1st February, 1887.

HUGH MCCALLUM, Secretary.