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131. The following Table gives the deaths from the principal diseases causing deaths :-
Non-notifiable diseases No. of Deaths Percentage of total deaths Death rate per mille population 1931 1930 Broncho-pneumonia 2,749 14.62 3.61 2.63 Pulmonary tuberculosis 1,983 10.55 2.60 2.62 Bronchitis 1,976 10.51 2.59 1.99 Pneumonia 1,116 5.94 1.46 1.03 Diarrhoea (infantile) 1,623 8.63 2.13 1.92 Diarrhoea 1,180 6.28 1.55 0.85 Dysentery 264 1.41 0.34 0.27 Beri-Beri 369 1.96 0.48 0.56 Malaria Heart disease and heart failure... Notifiable Diseases No. of Deaths Percentage of total deaths Death rate per mille population 1931 1930 Smallpox 8 0.04 0.012 0.32 Enteric 70 0.37 0.08 0.13 Diphtheria 57 0.30 0.07 0.05 Cerebro-spinal fever 16 0.08 0.02 0.01 Plague 0 0.00 0.00 0.00132. The number of deaths of infants under one year were Chinese 7,443, Non-Chinese 24. If the figures for the Chinese births registered represented the total births, which they do not, the infantile mortality rate for this race would be 617.42 as compared with 557.5 in the previous year. The mortality rate among the non-Chinese was 61.85 as compared with 74.0 for 1930.
133. In spite of the fact that there was no epidemic during all but the last few days of the year, the practice of dumping bodies continued. The number reported by the Police was 1,295, the number for 1930 being 1,316. In the absence of infectious disease, the argument so often advanced that dumping is practised...