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The deaths from Tubercular Diseases (all types) for both Chinese and Non-Chinese are shown distributed according to age groups by the following table which covers ten years 1914 to 1925 with the omission of the years 1916 and 1918.
Age Groups.
Years.
1914 1915 1917 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925
Under 1 year. 88 59 193 103 231 219 200 213 269 313 1 to 5 years... 138 195 290 302 469 340 393 419 54 5 to 15 years,... 80 97 129 139 201 157 180 169 207 176 15 to 25 years...... 101 110 124 159 171 181 233 221 199 25 to 45 years... 421 431 486 569 644 643 610 673 750 737 45 to 60 years..... 183 199 205 258 278 256 351 301 319 317 Over 60 years.... 34 32 43 62 65 91 93 43 79 Total All Chinese Deaths 1,053 1,123 1,469 1,597 2,059 1,887 2,060 2,071 2,358 2,291 Percentage of Chinese deaths due to Tuberculosis 7.723 10,244 11,348 12,151 11,604 14,241 15,289 15,301 14,785 11.3 14.7 14.3 14.0 16.9 16.2 14.4 13.5 15.7 15.5Tetanus and Convulsions.
These diseases accounted for 163 deaths of children under five years of age.
Out of 101 deaths ascribed to Tetanus 86 were children under one month old and 4 of children over one month and under one year old.
Convulsions accounted for the deaths of 72 children under five years old. Of these none were under one month and 49 over one month and under one year old.
Malaria.
Malarial Fever is not a notifiable disease. The figures and tables given below therefore are compiled from the registers of deaths.
Deaths of Chinese are registered according to the district in which they occur. For this purpose there are five Registration Districts namely Victoria District which includes the Peak and the Harbour, Kowloon District which includes New Kowloon, Shaukiwan, Aberdeen and Stanley Districts.
All Non-Chinese deaths are Registered in Victoria.
It does not follow that, because a death from Malaria is registered in a given district, the infection was acquired in that district.