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The following table shows the number of interments at the various cemeteries during the year 1924 :
PUBLIC PRIVATE Colonial 80 Roman Catholic (Happy Valley) 161 283 Mohammedan (Happy Valley) 4 63 Stanley ... 22 Aberdeen ... ... Shek O ... ... Jewish (Happy Valley) 1 192 Parsee 11 Malay ... Kai Lung Wan East 1 Sai Yu Shek ... Ho Man Tin ... ... Tai Shek Ku New Territories 1,566 Chinese Roman Catholic (So Kon Po) 181 1,443 Tung Wah Hospital ... 5,301 Chinese Permanent, Aberdeen ... 2 Chinese Protestant, Mt. Davis 86 68 Chinese Christian, Kowloon Tong ... 8,280 Chinese Christian, Sai Yu Shek ... ... Eurasian (Ho Tung) 13 22 4,982 7,16217.-BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION.
The General Registration Office established by Ordinance No. 7 of 1896, as amended by Ordinance No. 26 of 1923, for registration of both births and deaths is situated at the Sanitary Department, Head Office.
At this office all non-Chinese births and deaths must be registered. Chinese are required to register in the district within which the birth or death occurred. A list of such district registries for births and deaths respectively is appended.
As from January 1st 1924, the death registry for Kowloon peninsula was transferred from Yaumati Police Station (except on Sundays and General Holidays) to Kowloon Disinfecting Station, and Shaukiwan Police Station ceased to be a birth registry. Nos. 2 and 7 Police Stations are available for registration of deaths on Sundays and Public Holidays only, when the General Registration office is closed.
The Head of the Sanitary Department is ex officio Registrar and has appointed the Police officers in charge of stations, the Inspector in charge of Kowloon Disinfecting Station and the principal clerks in charge of Dispensaries on the appended list as assistant registrars.