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Infantile Mortality.
80. The numbers of deaths of infants under one year were :-
Chinese
Non-Chinese
7,094
23
81. 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 347.34 as compared with 454.89, 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.
82. The mortality rate among the non-Chinese was 49.78 as compared with 88.30 in 1933.
The Dumping of the Dead.
83. The following table shows the number of unknown dead bodies found by the Police in the streets and elsewhere during the last five years:-
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 Victoria 418 366 382 357 289 Kowloon 669 738 884 881 679 Harbour 126 115 79 47 27 Elsewhere 103 76 82 62 61 Total 1,316 1,295 1,427 1,347 1,05698 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.
84. The Europeans and Americans resident in the Colony are estimated to number 9,216 of whom 7,121 were British. The majority of Europeans and Americans are treated by private practitioners when ill, and figures are not available for calculating incidence rates.
85. There were 149 deaths among the 9,216 giving a death rate of 16.2 per mille.