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The actual Death returns and Causes of Death are compiled from two main sources:
(1) Certificates from Private Practitioners (registered) and the various Hospitals, and (2) the Mortuaries, mostly via the Coroner's returns.
In addition, a certain number are certified by the Medical Officers of Health, in cases of fatal illness, unattended by a registered Practitioner. In some outlying areas, the Police notify the cause of death.
The Death Statistics are, therefore, much more reliable than those concerning Births; although it must be remembered that, with so large a fluctuation of people, it does not follow that either the disease was contracted in the Colony or that regular inhabitants stay in the Colony to die. The Chinese prefer burial in their native soil.
There is one other point to bear in mind in connection with Non-Chinese death Statistics, especially concerning British inhabitants. It is that this section of the Community not only consists of picked individuals of sound health but these spend only the early adult or middle periods of their life in the Colony, (Children leave the Colony at about 8 years of age). Moreover, the diseases from which they suffer are mostly acquired locally, but the majority, if severe, would prove fatal after return to their native land. Thus, there arises a fallacious relation between the Foreign population and births and deaths.
Their Proportionate numbers of the sexes are also artificially produced by geographical and political conditions.
(1) Numbers of Deaths.
Total number of deaths registered in the Colony during the year 1928 is made up as follows:
Chinese Non-Chinese Total 14,553 204 14,757This is practically the same total as last year (1927), there being a difference of 4 only. The Non-Chinese deaths, however, are less than 1927 by 32, so that there has been a slight increase in Chinese deaths of 28. These figures have little comparative value without an accurate census of the population.
Deaths occurring in the Forces, stationed in the Colony, are included in the above totals. Of these, 4 occurred in the Army, 9 in the Navy and 4 in the Air Force.
M 136
The actual Death returns and Causes of Death are compiled from two main sources:
(1) Certificates from Private Practitioners (registered) and the various Hospitals, and (2) the Mortuaries, mostly via the Coroner's returns.
In addition, a certain number are certified by the Medical Officers of Health, in cases of fatal illness, unattended by a registered Practitioner. In some outlying areas, the Police notify the cause of death.
The Death Statistics are, therefore, much more reliable than those concerning Births; although it must be remembered that, with so large a fluctuation of people, it does not follow that either the disease was contracted in the Colony or that regular inhabitants stay in the Colony to die. The Chinese prefer burial in their native soil.
There is one other point to bear in mind in connection with Non-Chinese death Statistics, especially concerning British inhabitants. It is that this section of the Community not only consists of picked individuals of sound health but these spend only the early adult or middle periods of their life in the Colony, (Children leave the Colony at about 8 years of age). Moreover, the diseases from which they suffer are mostly acquired locally, but the majority, if severe, would prove fatal after return to their native land. Thus, there arises a fallacious relation between the Foreign population and. births and deaths.
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Proportionate numbers of the sexes are also artificially produced by geographical and political conditions.
(1) Numbers of Deaths.
Total number of deaths registered in the Colony during the year 1928 is made up as follows:
Chinese Non-Chinese
Total
14,553
204
14,757
This is practically the same total as last year (1927), there being a difference of 4 only. The Non-Chinese deaths, however. are less than 1927 by 32, so that there has been a slight increase in Chinese deaths of 28. These figures have little comparative value without an accurate census of the population.
Deaths occurring in the Forces, stationed in the Colony, are included in the above totals. Of these, 4 occurred in the Army, 9 in the Navy and 4 in the Air Force.
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