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The following Table shows the birth rates (calculated from the registered births) amongst the Non-Chinese and Chinese Civil Community during the last ten years.

BIRTH RATES FROM 1914 to 1923.

Year.

Non-Chinese,

Chinese.

1914.

16.8

6.8

1915.

13.2

5.7

1916.

20.05

5.8

1917....

20.08

4.9

1918.

22.07

3.6

1919.

20.6

3.9

1920..

19.78

3.96

1921.....

25.88

5.68

1922.

22.84

6.25

23.03

6.97

1923.

The usual preponderance of male over female births is contin- ued for 1923.

Thus there were amongst the Chinese 168 male births to every 100 female births.

Amongst the Non-Chinese the figures for 1923 were 107 males to every 100 female births.

The nationality of the civilian Non-Chinese parents was as follows:-

British 169, Portuguese 73, Indian 52, American 15,

Filipino 12, Spanish 7, Malay 5, Danish, Japanese and Dutch 4 each, Jewish, Parsee and French 2 each, Annamite, Mauritian, Eurasian, Arabian, Norwegian and Brazilian 1 each.

* Deaths.

The total number of deaths in the Colony during 1923 was 15,536 (14,569 in 1922).

The general Civil death rate was 25.98 per 1,000 (25.16 in 1922).

The Chinese deaths numbered 15,289 (14,241 in 1922).

The Chinese death rate was 26.27 per 1,000 (25.47 in 1922). The non-Chinese deaths numbered 247 (328 in 1922) including 17 from the Navy and Army.

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