1841-1886
HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
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If any further good is to be done in the way of sanitation, it must be through the medium of a new building Ordinance, which is urgently needed, and landlords should be compelled to have their houses whitewashed at stated times, at least once every year, and such faults of construction as I have pointed out should not be allowed.
Table XIV. shows the Meteorological Report for the past year. The maximum temperature was above the average, and the minimum below the average, of the past eight years, the rainfall is above the average.
The Hon. J. Gardiner Austin,
Colonial Secretary,
I have, &c.
PH. B. C. AYRES,
Colonial Surgeon.
Hong Kong.
No. 30.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following letter from the Acting Registrar General, forwarding a return of births and deaths for the quarter ending the 31st December 1875, is published for general information.
By command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong,
February 4, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
Registrar General's Office, Hong Kong,
January 20, 1876.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to forward the returns of births and deaths for the 4th quarter of 1875, ending December 31st.
During that period there were registered in the Colony 570 births and 899 deaths.
Of this number, 66 births and 57 deaths occurred among the British and foreign community, while among the Chinese there were 504 births and 842 deaths.
Among the British and foreign community the deaths were as follow :-
British Portuguese Indian Malay
14 16 8 3
the remaining portion (16) was among non-residents in the Colony.
The births were those of 32 boys and 34 girls.
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