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Malaria.

The death from this disease were 45 (332 for 1921.) OF these 8 were Non-Chinese and 146 Chinese or a percentage of 3·11 of the total deaths.

The following table shows the distribution of deaths from Malaria in the Colony excluding the New Territories, the total cases, the percentage of these to the total deaths recorded during the last ten years and the number of deaths per 1,000 of the population for "the same period.

The deaths from Malaria in the City of Victoria numbered 116 in an estimated population of 340,000 giving a rate of 0-34 per 1,000. In 1921 there were 142 deaths in an estimated population of 360,000 giving a rate of 0'39 per 1,000.

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The following table shows the numbers of deaths from this disease for the last ten years and the percentage of such deaths of the total deaths for eacli such year.

1913

1914

1915

1916

1917

*1918

1919

1920

1921

1922

Deaths from Berisheri, 1913 to 1922,

Year.

No. of deaths,

per cent of total deaths.

339

401

399

416

398

5-02

520

102

654

6:26

80-L

GO9

555

476

361

2:00

526

142

829

5.69

Year.

Victoria

including

Table of Deaths from Malaria 1913 to 1922.

Poak and

Harbour

Kowloon

Aberdeen

Stanley

+ Total

l'ercentage

of

total deaths

1,000 of

Deaths per

| Population

*

Allowance made for 522 Chinese lives lost through conflagration.

NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

The following cases of these Discuses were notified during

the year.

Disense.

1913

110

53

9

252 2'90

0:06

Chinese, Non-Chinese. Total.

1911

73

17

20

211 2+26

0:55

1915

157

66

16

32

328

414

078

1916

182

75

20

36

19

337

3-19

0.78

1917

205

98

20

68

11

411

3:03

0:92

Plague

1.174

1918

189

71

16

LOG

10

388

* 293

0-83

Small-pos.......

204

1.181 212

1919

117

101

13

71

12

314

2'69

0:62

Cerebro-Spinal Fever.

46

53

1920

111

84

13

82

12

332

2.67

0:59

Enteric Fever

100

الان

1921

159 86

13

332

9.70

0:55

Paratyhoid Fever..

21

27

1922

126

204

34

454

3:11

0.78

Cholera .........

Diphtheria

50

15

71.

Scarlet Fever

A

* Allowance made for 522 deaths from coufl gration.

† Those tables include the British and Foreign Community and Army and Navy, The figures for the districts are for Chinese only,

Beri-beri.

There were 829 douths from this disease during the year.

Puerperal Fever

1

15

Relapsing Fever

Typhus Fover Yellow Fever

0

0

0

1,601

107

1,708

93

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