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Sub-districts 7 (Kowloon City) and 8 (Sham Shui Po) are in New Kowloon. The remainder comprise the whole of Old Kowloon and are distributed as follows:- Health District 11 comprises sub-districts 1, 6 and 9, Health District 12 comprises sub-districts 2 and 3, and Health District 13 comprises sub-districts 4 and 5. The Non-Chinese civil population of Old Kowloon at the 1911 Census was 2,137, while the Non-Chinese population of New Kowloon was 69, and of the New Territories 117, making a total of 2,313.
BIRTHS.
The births registered during the year were as follows:
Males. Females. Total. Chinese, 1,078 328 1,406 Non-Chinese, 193 169 362 Total 1911, 1,271 497 1,768 " 1910, 1,103 430 1,533This gives a general birth rate of 47 per 1,000 as compared with 4.3 per 1,000 in 1910 and 44 per 1,000 in 1909.
The birth rate among the Non-Chinese community was 19.22 per 1,000 as compared with 14.42 per 1,000 in 1910 and 15.38 in 1909.
The nationalities of the Non-Chinese parents were as follows:- British 171, Portuguese 78, Indian 48, Malay and Filipino 31, German 13, American 5, Jew 5, Norwegian and Spanish 3 each, Japanese 2, French, Danish and African 1 each.
The number of Chinese births registered does not give an accurate record of the number of births which have occurred. Owing to the custom of the Chinese of not registering births unless the child has survived for a month and often in the case of female children not at all, it is probable that the majority if not all of the infants which are sickly at birth or die before they have lived one month have not had their births registered. It is customary, therefore, to assume that all children of one month old and under who are admitted to the various Convents (being brought there sick by poor people) and all young infants found dead in the street, harbour, hillsides, etc., by the Police, have been born in the Colony but not registered. By adding the number of such children to the number of the registered births it is assumed that a somewhat more correct number of births is obtained and from this is calculated a corrected birth rate.
The number of such children in 1911 was 320 males and 513 females, total 833, which being added to the registered births,
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Sub-districts 7 (Kowloon City) and 8 (Sham Shui Po) are in New Kowloon. The remainder comprise the whole of Old Kow- loon and are distributed as follows:- Health District 11 com- prises sub-districts 1, 6 and 9, Health District 12 comprises sub-districts 2 and 3, and Health District 13 comprises sub- districts 4 and 5. The Non-Chinese civil population of Old Kowloon at the 1911 Census was 2,137, while the Non-Chinese population of New Kowloon was 69, and of the New Territories 117, making a total of 2,313.
BIRTHS.
The births registered during the year were as follows:
Males.
Females.
Total.
Chinese,
1,078
328
1,406
Non-Chinese,
193
169
362
Total 1911,
1,271
497
1,768
"
1910,
1,103
430
1,533
This gives a general birth rate of 47 per 1,000 as compared with 4.3 per 1,000 in 1910 and 44 per 1,000 in 1909.
The birth rate among the Non-Chinese community was 19-22 per 1,000 as compared with 14-42 per 1,000 in 1910 and 15:38 in 1909.
The nationalities of the Non-Chinese parents were as follows:- British 171, Portuguese 78, Indian 48, Malay and Filipino 31, German 13, American 5, Jew 5, Norwegian and Spanish 3 each, Japanese 2, French, Danish and African I each.
The number of Chinese births registered does not give an accurate record of the number of births which have occurred. Owing to the custom of the Chinese of not registering births unless the child has survived for a month and often in the case of female children not at all, it is probable that the majority if not all of the infants which are sickly at birth or die before they have lived one month have not had their births registered. It is customary, there- fore, to assume that all children of one month old and under who are admitted to the various Convents (being brought there sick by poor people) and all young infants found dead in the street, harbour, hillsides, etc., by the Police, have been born in the Colony but not registered. By adding the number of such children to the number of the registered births it is assumed that a somewhat more correct number of births is obtained and from this is calculated a corrected birth rate.
The number of such children in 1911 was 320 males and 513 females, total 833, which being added to the registered births,
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