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Annexe N.
PUBLIC MORTUARY KOWLOON.
REPORT BY DR. W. J. WOODMAN, Medical Officer in Charge.
1. The total number of post mortem examinations made during the year was 980 as compared with 1,324 last year and 1,063 in 1913.
2. During the year there were 79 cases of plague and eight of small-pox as compared with 305 last year and 62 in 1913
3. The nationalities of the bodies were:
Chinese, 978 Indians, 1 Norwegian. 14. Of the bodies 489 were of children under one year and 222 more between the ages of one year and five years.
Epitome of the Causes of Death.
I.-General Diseases, 1915. 1914. 338 586 II.—Local Diseases :- (a) Nervous System, 2 8 (b) Circulatory 16 13 (c) Respiratory 328 329 (d) Digestive 97 69 (e) Genito-Urinary System, 6 (f) Organs of Locomotion. 3 (g) Developmental Diseases, 1 1 III.-Injuries:- (a) General, 36 21 (b) Local, 11 16 IV. Decomposed Bodies, 142 279 Total, 980 1,324Page 86