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# BIRTHS.
The births registered during the year were as follows:-
Chinese, Non-Chinese,
Total 1919.
Total 1918,
Male. Female. Total. 1,298 602 1,900 164 130 294 1,462 732 2,194 1,520 801 2,321This gives a general civil birth rate of 43 per 1,000 as compared with 41 in 1918 and 53 in 1917.
The birth rate among the non-Chinese community was 20.6 per 1,000 as compared with 22.07 in 1918 and 20.8 in 1917.
The nationality of the non-Chinese parents was as follows:- British 113, Filipinos 7, Portuguese 80, Indian 60, American 6, Malay 4, Norwegian 2, Australian 2, Japanese 5, Eurasian 1, Dutch 3, French 1, Spanish 2, Jewish 3, Annamite 1, Parsee 2, Panamanian 2.
The birth rate amongst the Chinese as calculated from the registered births is 3.9 per 1,000 as compared with 3.6 in 1918.
It is not however possible to form an accurate estimate of the Chinese birth rate as owing to the custom amongst the Chinese of not registering births before the children have lived for one month and, also owing to the constant flow of people to and from the mainland of China, many births which occur here are not registered.
Every year a large number of children of about one month of age and less are left when sick at the various convents or abandoned dead in the streets, hillsides and harbour.
The number of such during 1919 was 1,192.
If it be assumed that all those children were born in the Colony and not registered this would bring the total births up to 3,386 and the general birth rate to 67 per 1,000 while it would bring the Chinese birth rate up to 6.3 per 1,000 instead of 3.9 per 1,000.
It has formerly been the custom to call the higher birth rate a corrected birth rate. This is however not a suitable term. The actual birth rate is unknown.
The preponderance of male over female registered births is very marked among the Chinese there being for the year 1919 215 males to every 100 females (194 to 100 in 1918, and 219 to 100 in 1917).
In the non-Chinese population the proportion of male to female births was 120 to 100 as compared with 102 to 100 in 1918.
# DEATHS.
The total number of deaths registered during the year was 11,647 (13,714 in 1918 and 10,433 in 1917) the general death rate was 23.2 per 1,000 (24.4 in 1918 and 23.4 in 1917).
M 13
BIRTHS.
The births registered during the year were as follows:-
Chinese, Non-Chinese,
Total 1919.
Total 1918,
Male. Female. Total.
1,298
602 1,900
164
130
29-1
1,462
732 2,194
1,520
801 2,321
This gives a general civil birth rate of 43 per 1,000 as com- pared with 41 in 1918 and 53 in 1917.
The birth rate among the non-Chinese community was 20'6 per 1,000 as compared with 22:07 in 1918 and 2008 in 1917.
The nationality of the non-Chinese parents was as follows:- British 113, Filipinos 7, Portuguese 80, Indian 60, American 6, Malay 4, Norwegian 2, Australian 2, Japanese 5, Eurasian 1, Dutch 3, French 1, Spanish 2, Jewish 3, Annamite 1, Parsee 2, Panamanian 2.
The birth rate amongst the Chinese as calculated from the registered births is 3.9 per 1,000 as compared with 3-6 in 1918.
It is not however possible to form an accurate estimate of the Chinese birth rate as owing to the custom amongst the Chinese of not registering births before the children have lived for one month and, also owing to the constant flow of people to and from the main- land of China, many births which occur here are not registered.
Every year a large number of children of about one month of age and less are left when sick at the various convents or abandoned dead in the streets, hillsides and harbour.
The number of such during 1919 was 1,192.
If it be assumed that all those children were been born in the Colony and not registered this would bring the total births up to 3,386 and the general birth rate to 67 per 1,000 while it would bring the Chinese birth rate up to 6.3 per 1,000 instead of 3'9 per 1,000.
It has formerly been the custom to call the higher birth rate a corrected birth rate. This is however not a suitable term. The actual birth rate is unknown.
The preponderance of male over female registered births is very marked among the Chinese there being for the year 1919 215 males to every 100 females (194 to 100 in 1918, and 219 to 100 in 1917).
In the non-Chinese population the proportion of male to female births was 120 to 100 as compared with 102 to 100 in 1918.
DEATHS.
The total number of deaths registered during the year was 11,647 (13,714 in 1918 and 10,433 in 1917) the general death rate was 23.2 per 1,000 (244 in 1918 and 234 in 1917).
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