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The above figures suggest that the increase of Malaria during recent years has, this year, been reversed. percentage to total deaths and the mortality rate (1928) are not only exceptionally low but a record for the last fifteen years.
(8) Influenza.
After three or four years of a low incidence of Influenza in the Colony, there was a fresh outbreak in 1928 and as many as 121 deaths from this disease were registered. Of these, only three were of Non-Chinese nationality.
Although it is not notifiable, a special Register is kept of deaths returned as Influenza. The majority are sent in always by the same Hospital or Practitioners and it is probable that the figures are not very accurate for the whole population.
The following table shows the number of deaths due to Influenza, for each month, since the year 1919.
Month. 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 Monthly Totals for Ten Years. January 21 39 20 16 118 19 228 13 5 2 13 6 1 February. March 25 75 20 13 4 2 April 41 38 22 18 5 10 May 75 32 27 13 7 5 June 137 61 26 44 13 5 4 4 8 305 July. 77 22 August September. October 30 14 30 8 44 13 9 35 27 November 2 34 17 54 40 30 30 30 5 December..... 2 34 17 14 9 11 4 12 247 Total. 449 542 303 422 83 52 45 33 29 112 1(9) Venereal Disease.
The considerable number of deaths from Venereal disease all registered under Syphilis.