AnnualReport-1923 — Page 327

Year.

M 47

Table of Deaths from Malaria 1914 to 1923.

Victoria

including Peak and

Harbour

Kowloon

Year Victoria including Peak and Harbour Kowloon 1914 73 58 19 1915 157 66 27 1916 182 75 25 1917 205 98 29 1918 189 71 16 1919 117 101 13 1920 141 84 13 1921 159 86 13 1922 126 204 1923 282 324 32 *******2#2 47 20 211 2.26 0:55 46 32 328 4.14 0.78 36 19 337 3.19 0.78 68 11 411 3.93 0.92 106 10 388 2.93 0.83 71 12 314 2.69 0.62 82 12 332 2.67 0.59 56 9 332 2.79 0.55 34 79 3 454 3.11 0.78 23 13 674 4.33 1.14

BERI-BERI.

The deaths from this disease were 1,270 or a percentage of 8.17 of the total registered deaths.

These total deaths exceed by over 50 per cent the highest number of deaths from this disease during the last ten years.

It is impossible to say whether this increased incidence is all real and due to a lowered standard of living or is at any rate in part due to the presence of a much greater population than that estimated and therefore partly at least an apparent increase.

Year No. of deaths Per cent of total deaths 1914 399 4.16 1915 398 5.02 1916 520 4.92 1917 654 6.26 1918 804 6.09 1919 555 4.76 1920 361 4.90 1921 526 4.42 1922 829 5.69 1923 1,270 8.17