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Table showing percentage distribution of population by age groups and the incidence of deaths from tubercular diseases in such age groups calculated per cent of the deaths from each group of tubercular diseases.

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Pulmonary and acute Miliary Tuberculosis,

Tubercular Meningitis,

6:37

0-76. General Tuberculosis. Other Tuberculosis.

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All Tubercular disenses,

population in different age Estimated percentage of the

groups.

Type 1

951

4:55

12.50

LT-07

22-23

...

Type 2

99-11

43-33

33.33

0.2

99.9

Type 3

35-52

43.42

17:10

1:31

2-63

F

19-13

89.1F

16:32

4-33

Type 5

All types...

Population

S-FL

57·1

143

F!

8F-11

19

L-X

2.22

169

9-8

16-1

25.1

9.28

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A few examples drawn from the table may help to show its purpose.

Thus 627 per cent of the population are supposedly between the ages of 15 and 45 years and of tubercular diseases of the lungs, commonly called Consumption, there occurred in this age group 52-97 of the deaths due to such diseases.

Of the deaths from Tubercular Meningitis 88:32 per cent were of children under 15 years of age.

Of the deaths from Abdominal Tuberculosis 9604 per cent were of children under 15 years of age and of these due to General Tuberculosis 77·03 per cent occurred in this age group,

The actual numbers of Chinese deaths which occurred from tubercular diseases grouped as above are as follows in each age

group.

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Age Groups

Type Type Type Type Type

Type Type

4

Inder 1 year

63

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14

75

1

2:0

Over 1 year and under 5 years

138

26

66 163

393

Over 5 years and under 15 years

66

20

26

64

180

Over 15 years and under 25 years

Over 25 years and under 45 years

181

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586

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20.3

840

Over 15 years and under 60 years

322

25

Over 60 years

90

3

347

93

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The following table shows the population of the Colony exclud- ing the New Territories (except New Kowloon) as found at the 1921 census distributed according to age groups and the percentage of persons in each age group.

It also shows for several years past (figures for 1916 and 1918 are not available) the number of deaths registered in such age groups as due to Tuberculosis (all types).

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