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Deaths from Respiratory Tuberculosis 1949 & 1950.
a
1949
Age Group
1950
Hale
Female
Person
Male
Female
Person
Under 1 17
14
1
12
17
2
18
15
3
17
13
8
7
5 - 9
16
9
10
* 14
4
9
15 - 19
16
20
20 - 24
63
54
25 29
89
160
•
30 34
132
94
226
35 - 39
150
90
240
40-44
130
67
197
45
49
85
137
50
54
114
162
55
59
73
121
60
41
69
17
70 - 74
6
75-79
80 - 84
85 & over
Unknown
58 R R P P P X FO ||
48
43
91
49
93
33
39
28
67
30
35
29
15
26
26
17
17
13
13
8
21
36
244
23
47
95
57
152
128
77
205
166
100
266
158
82
240
162
58
220
122
55
177
101
55
156
65
47
112
41
35
76
36
24
60
11
13
24
5
5
2
94 of all deaths registered are certified by registered medical practitioners, The remainder, occurring in the remoter rural area where little or no medical attention is available, are registered at Police Stations and normally returned as 'due to natural causes', It can therefore be assumed that the death returns reflect a reasonably accurate picture of the causes of death, It must be remembered, however, that a number of deaths occur outside the Colony of residents who, on falling ill, return to their native villages in the hope of improving their health, or to die there in accordance with Chinese tradition. At the same time a number of individuals in an advanced state of disease come to the Colony in the hope of benefitting from the medical services here, No information as to the numbers is available.
With the very considerable movement of population that takes place between Hong Kong and China inaccuracies in morbidity and
This free movement mortality statistics are bound to occur.
persons of Chinese nationality which has been such an essential part of the Colony's economic life, within the past few months, came to a vártual standstill.