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PUBLIC MORTUARY KOWLOON.
REPORT ON POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION,
1926.
1925.
Male bodies examined,
1,168
1,526.
Female bodies examined,
652
796
Sex Unknown (Too decomposed),
17
27
Placenta only,
1
Total,
1,837
2,350.
Claimed bodies,
Unclaimed bodies,
288
724
1,549
1,626
Total,
1,837
2,350
Bodies from the Peninsula,
1,620
2,109
Bodies from the Harbour,
217
241
Total,
1,837
2,350
Nationalities:--
English,
2
Swede,
1
Indian,
1
Portuguese,
2
Tonkinese,
2
Chinese,
1,830
2,339
Japanese,
2
1
American,
1
German,
3
Total,
1,837
2,350,
Epitome of the Causes of Death.
I.-Local Diseases :-
(a) of the Nervous System,
8
24
(b) of the Circulatory System,
31
24
(c) of the Respiratory System,
689
758
(d) of the Digestive System,
386
539
(e) of the Genito-Urinary System,
14
26
(f) Affection consequent on parturition to the child,
99
112
(g) Diseases caused by infection,
234
278
(h) Diseases due to disorder of nutrition or metabolism,
31
77
(i) Other diseases,
9
4
198