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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
74. The numbers of deaths of infants under one year were:—
Chinese
Non-Chinese
6,782
40
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 454.89 as compared with 525.28, which was the equally incorrect rate for the previous year. Allowing that only one third of the births are registered this would still mean a very high infantile mortality figure.
The mortality rate among the non-Chinese was 88.30 as compared with 97.93 in 1931.
THE DUMPING OF THE DEAD.
75. The following table shows the number of unknown dead bodies found by the Police in the streets and elsewhere during the last five years:
1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 Victoria 706 418 366 382 357 Kowloon 1,072 669 738 884 881 Harbour 164 126 115 79 47 Elsewhere 91 103 76 82 62 Total 2,033 1,316 1,295 1,427 1,34798 per cent of the bodies dumped were children, the majority being infants. The number of males exceeded that of females.
Vital Statistics of European Civilian Population.
76. The Europeans and Americans resident in the Colony are estimated to number 9,012, of whom 6,964 were British. The majority of Europeans and Americans are treated by private practitioners when ill, and figures are not available for calculating incidence rates.
There were 133 deaths among the 9,012, giving a death rate of 14.7 per mille.