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Tetanus and Convulsions.
These diseases accounted for 147 deaths of children under five years of age.
Out of 85 deaths ascribed to Tetanus 64 were of children under one month old and one of a child over one month and under one year old.
Convulsions accounted for the deaths of 73 children under five years old. Of these 67 were under one month and five over a 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.
The flow of the population to and from neighbouring Chinese territory, amounting in a year to more than the estimated population of the Colony, makes it impossible to say to what extent the infection of Malaria causing deaths within the Colony may have occurred herein.
During 1927 the total deaths from Malaria were 635 (587 in 1926). Of these 3 were Non-Chinese (4 in 1926).
This number of deaths is a percentage of 4.9 of the total registered deaths.
The Chinese deaths from Malaria in the City of Victoria (excluding the Peak and Harbour) numbered 260 (172 in 1926) in an estimated population of 500,000 giving a death rate of 0.52 per thousand (0.38 in 1926).
The following table shows for fourteen successive years the deaths in the Colony from Malaria Fever expressed as a percentage of the total deaths registered each year and the incidence of such deaths per thousand of the population.