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The death rate amongst the Chinese from diseases of the respiratory system was 9.8 per 1,000 as compared with 6.2 in 1919.
Tuberculosis.
The number of deaths from tubercular diseases was 2,082 and 32 of these occurred in non-Chinese. There were 1,401 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis, 1,380 Chinese and 21 non-Chinese, and 53 deaths from tubercular meningitis.
The percentage of deaths from tuberculosis was 16.7 compared with 14.05 in 1919.
Nervous Diseases.
Excluding the two infectious diseases, tetanus and cerebro-spinal-meningitis, the number of deaths from these was 335 as compared with 516 in 1919. The deaths of Chinese infants from tetanus and convulsions were 198 and from meningitis undefined 28 as compared with 270 and 11 in 1919.
Malaria.
The number of deaths from malaria during the year was 332 (319 in 1919) of which all but 9 occurred among Chinese.
The following tables show the distribution of these deaths in the Colony and the police admissions to hospital for malaria during the last ten and eleven years respectively:
Year Non-Chinese Victoria Kowloon Shaukwan Aberdeen Stanley 1911 8 176 26 54 43 5 1912 18 214 80 34 44 3 1913 8 110 47 33 53 9 1914 7 73 58 19 47 20 1915 4 157 66 27 46 32 1916 9 182 75 25 36 19 1917 ... 205 98 29 68 11 1918 6 189 71 16 106 10 1919 ... 117 101 13 71 12 1920 ... 141 84 13 82 12The 141 deaths in 1920 under Victoria include 8 from the harbour,