M 43
The nationality of the civilian Non-Chinese parents was as follows:-
British 165, Portuguese 72, Indian 55, American 10, Filipino 5, Spanish 6, Japanese 6, French 2, Malay 7, Dutch 2, Jewish 2, Eurasian 3, Australian, Annamite, West Indian, German, Norwegian, Persian, Javanese, Danish and Canadian 1 each,
DEATHS.
The total number of deaths in the Colony during 1922 was 14,569 (11,880 in 1921).
The general civilian death rate was 25.16 per 1,000 (20.27 in 1921).
The Chinese deaths numbered 14,241 (11,604 in 1921).
The Chinese death rate was 25.47 per 1,000 (20.29 in 1921). The Non-Chinese deaths numbered 328 including 17 from the Navy and Army.
The death rate for the Non-Chinese Civil community was 20.46 per 1,000 (18.08 per 1,000 in 1921).
The nationality of the civilian Non-Chinese deaths was as follows:-
British 50, Filipino 59, Indian 57, Japanese 43, Portuguese 64, Malay 15, American 5, French 7, Eurasian 1, Dutch, Annamite, Spanish, Russian 2, Swiss, German, Norwegian, 2, Jewish 1, Italian 1, West Indian 1, Swedish 1, African 1.
AGE DISTRIBUTION OF DEATHS.
The number of deaths of children under one year of age was 4,216 of which 4,165 were Chinese and 51 Non-Chinese.
Of these 1,067 Chinese and 15 Non-Chinese were under one month old.
The ratio of infants' deaths to the total deaths registered was 28.9 per cent. For Chinese deaths alone the ratio was 29.2 per cent, while for the Non-Chinese it was 15.5 per cent.
A true infantile mortality rate cannot be calculated as it is not known how many children were born in the Colony owing to the habit of not registering births amongst the Chinese.
Owing also to the constant flow of Chinese between Hongkong and China the death rate cannot be corrected by distributing them according to the place of origin of their causes.
The deaths of children between one and five years of age numbered 2,234 of which 2,218 were Chinese,