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of
are
cxcepted
of this Island by that most certain means modifying disease, and counteracting and destroying it's sources _ the presence of civilization, the
-
records of this year, peculiar for the intensity of
its summer, would have presented a melancholy-catalogue of disease and death. Tabl: »o 10. – Thowing the fixed European
population in Hongkong, during the year " 1848, and the firéportion of deaths .
The P of Evropian The No of deaths
including women including the of Proportion of death's.
and children.
963
uzinin and chuthin's
135
12.0 for cent
This table is based upon information supplied by the Registion General. In the
table of last year,
conceponding table.
the
Hearren
were ceapted from the aggregate of strength and deaths." "Europeans include. "Europeans, Americans, and
Portugues", many of the latte
are
indigenous,
and in Lome
there has been
an
infusion of Chinese blood . The military & 0,
iiv
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this return. The amount
86
of
mortality thus furnished by the Registrar General does not correspond with the returns : made by
the Colonial. Surgeon of Europeans buried in the Colonial burying ground, and a return, most- politely furnished, and collated with great care, by His Highness the Roman battiolic prelate, of Europeans buried in the Roman Catholic cemeteries. These documents.
afford the following results.
Buried in the Colonial burying ground in 1848.
Civilians..
20
Merchant seamen – 25
Naval
7.
18
53.
Buried in the Roman Catholic ground.
bivilians of all classes.
35.
Total 88.
If from these, the seamen, whose diseases are for the most part imported, and who cannot be regarded as belonging
to the fixed-