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The preponderance of male over female registered births is very marked amongst the Chinese, there being 188 males to every 100 females in 1913 the proportion was 137 to 100, and in 1912, 181 to 100. With the addition of the 967 above mentioned unregistered births the proportion becomes 144 males to 100 females.
In the Non-Chinese community the proportion of male births to female births for 1914 was 117 to 100 as compared with 107 to 100 in 1913 and 118 to 100 in 1912.
DEATHS.
The deaths registered during the year numbered 9,585 (8,435 in 1913 and 9,682 in 1912). The general death rate was, therefore, 23.34 per 1,000 as against 21.16 in 1913 and 25.67 in 1912.
The rise in the death rate was due to the epidemic of Bubonic Plague which accounts for no less than 2,020 deaths.
The total number of deaths among the Chinese community was 9,316 which gives a death rate of 23.88 per 1,000 as against 21.75 in 1913 and 26.33 in 1912.
The deaths registered amongst the Non-Chinese community numbered 269 of which 216 were from the Civil population, 24 from the Army, 3 from the Navy, and 26 from foreign navies and the mercantile marine.
This gives a death rate for the Non-Chinese community generally of 12.99 per 1,000 as compared with 10.9 in 1913 and 14.5 in 1912 and for the Non-Chinese resident civil population (estimating the mercantile marine population at 900) of 17.85 per 1,000 (15.6 in 1913).
The nationalities of the deceased were as follows: - British 64, Indian 82, Portuguese 48, Japanese 24, Malay and Filipino 30, American 6, German, French and Jew 3 each, Spanish 2, Russian, Swiss, Belgian and Annamite, each. This gives a death rate of 7.9 per 1,000 for Europeans and Whites (7.1 in 1913), 13.6 per 1,000 for East Indians (10.4 in 1913) and 18.7 per 1,000 for races classed as mixed and coloured (20.4 in 1913).
Table I shows the number and causes of deaths registered during the year.