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under one year (1,008 in 1918). The death rate among the Chinese from diseases of the respiratory system was 6.2 per 1,000 as compared with 50 per 1,000 in 1918.
Tuberculosis.
The number of deaths from tuberculous diseases was 1,637 and 40 of these occurred in non-Chinese. There were 1,013 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis, 987 Chinese and 26 non-Chinese, and 29 deaths from tubercular meningitis. The percentage of deaths from tuberculosis was 14.05 as compared with 12.2 in 1918.
Nervous Diseases.
Excluding the two infectious diseases, tetanus and cerebro-spinal meningitis, the number of deaths from these was 516 as compared with 377 in 1918. The deaths of Chinese infants from tetanus and convulsions were 270 and from meningitis undefined 11, as compared with 218 and 29 in 1918.
Malaria.
The number of deaths from malaria during the year was 319 (398 in 1918 and 416 in 1917) of which all but 6 occurred in Chinese. Owing to the constant stream of immigrants and emigrants to and from the Colony it is impossible to form an opinion as to the number of these infections acquired in the Colony but it is certain that in a large proportion of cases infection was acquired outside this Colony.
The following tables show the distribution of these deaths in the Colony and the police admissions to hospital for malaria during the last nine and eleven years respectively:
Table of Deaths from Malaria,
Year Non-Chinese Victoria Kowloon, Shaukiwan Aberdeen Stanley 1911 8 176 26 54 43 1912 18 214 80 34 44 10 00 5 3 1913 8 110 47 33 53 1914 73 58 19 47 20 1915 157 66 27 46 32 1916 182 75 25 36 19 1917 205 98 29 68 11 1918 189 71 16 106 10 1919 6 117 101 13 71 12The 117 deaths in 1919 under Victoria include 15 from the Harbour.