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Malaria.
The deaths from this disease were 707 (674 in 1923). Of these 6 were Non-Chinese (7 in 1923) and 701 Chinese.
This number of deaths is a percentage of 4.54 of the total registered deaths.
The Chinese deaths from Malaria in the City of Victoria (excluding the Peak and Harbour) numbered 187 (260 in 1923) in an estimated population of 420,000 giving a rate of 0.44 per 1,000.
In 1923 there were 260 deaths in an estimated population of 350,000 giving a rate of 0.74 per 1,000.
The deaths from Malaria for this year show a slight absolute increase over last year and also an increase when expressed as a percentage of the total deaths registered.
The number of deaths per 1,000 of the population shows however a slight decrease which is accounted for by the increase in the estimated population.
The very considerable increase in the number of deaths ascribed to Malaria during the last two years is marked in the deaths registered in Kowloon.
In this part of the Colony not only has the population increased very rapidly during the last few years but the urban area has extended far afield into what were before purely rural districts and permanent anti-malarial measures such as the training of streams and the abolition of mosquito breeding collections of water have not kept pace with the extension of the town.
The following table shows the deaths from Malaria for the ten years 1915 to 1924 inclusive.
Year Victoria Peak and Harbour Kowloon Shaukiwan Total Percentage Rate per 1,000 1915 157 66 21 46 32 328 4.14 0.78 1916 182 75 25 36 19 337 3.19 0.78 1917 205 98 29 68 11 411 3.93 0.92 1918 189 71 16 106 ... 388 2.93 0.83 1919 117 101 13 71 12 314 2.69 0.62 1920 141 84 13 82 12 332 2.67 0.59 1921 159 86 332 2.79 0.55 1922 126 204 34 79 3 454 3.11 0.78 1923 260 64 32 23 13 674 4.33 1.14 1924 208 76 16 72 16 707 4.54 0.98