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Deaths.
70. The deaths registered among the civilian population of the Colony (including New Kowloon but excluding the remainder of the New Territories) was 18,161, giving a crude death rate of 22.11 as compared with 24.74 for the previous year.
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Estimated Deaths Death rate per Year mille population 1933 Chinese 17,928 800,921 22.38 Non-Chinese 233 20,424 11.39 1932 Chinese 19,546 781,036 25.02 Non-Chinese 283 19,984 14.1672. The principal diseases causing deaths were:-
Disease. No. of deaths. Percent-age of total deaths. Death rate per mille population. 1933 1932 Broncho-pneumonia 2,955 16.27 3.60 3.23 Pulmonary tuberculosis... 2,225 12.25 2.71 2.52 Pneumonia 761 4.19 0.93 2.38 Bronchitis 1,567 8.62 1.98 2.59 Diarrhoea (infantile). 1,377 7.58 1.68 1.60 Diarrhoea (over one year). 830 4.57 1.02 1.40 Dysentery 186 1.02 0.23 0.36 Nephritis 591 3.25 0.72 0.89 Heart disease heart failure 600 3.30 0.73 0.66 Beri-beri 463 2.55 0.56 0.59 Malaria 414 2.28 0.50 0.56 Notifiable Diseases:— Smallpox. 433 2.38 0.53 0.21 Enteric 64 0.35 0.08 0.10 Diphtheria 81 0.44 0.10 0.10 Cerebro-spinal meningitis 118 0.65 0.14 0.15 Cholera 0.19 Plague..J