-
50
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