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(b) the Tung Wah Hospitals for bodies where there has been no registered medical practitioner attending.
(c) the Medical Officer of Health for bodies found in houses and for which he is called for diagnosis.
(d) the Coroner for all bodies examined at the Public Mortuaries—including medico-legal cases and bodies dumped in the street or left at convents for disposal.
(e) the friends and relatives or the police in certain cases.
The following table shows the number of deaths certified by the various authorities certifying:
RETURN OF CERTIFIED AND UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
Authority certifying cause of death Non-Chinese Chinese Number of cases Percentage of the whole Number of cases Percentage of the whole Medical Practitioner in Attendance... 268 94.6 11,493 58.7 Medical Officer of Health ... 2 0.7 426 2.2 Tung Wah Hospital 1,013 5.18 Tung Wah Eastern Hospital. 491 2.51 Kwong Wah Hospital 147 0.6 Coroner from information received from the M.O. i/c. Mortuaries 13 4.64 5,976 30.5 Total..... 283 19,546DEATHS REGISTERED IN 1932.
Chinese deaths 19,546
Non-Chinese deaths 283
19,829