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(b) the Tung Wah Hospitals for bodies where there has been no registered medical practitioner attending.
(c) the Medical Officer of Health for bodies found in houses and for which he is called for diagnosis.
(d) the Coroner for all bodies examined at the Public Mortuaries—including medico-legal cases and bodies dumped in the street or left at convents for disposal.
(e) the friends and relatives or the police in certain cases.
The following table shows the number of deaths certified by the various authorities certifying:
RETURN OF CERTIFIED AND UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
Authority certifying cause of death Non-Chinese Chinese Number of cases Percentage of the whole Number of cases Percentage of the whole Medical Practitioner in Attendance... 268 94.6 11,493 58.7 Medical Officer of Health ... 2 0.7 426 2.2 Tung Wah Hospital 1,013 5.18 Tung Wah Eastern Hospital. 491 2.51 Kwong Wah Hospital 147 0.6 Coroner from information received from the M.O. i/c. Mortuaries 13 4.64 5,976 30.5 Total..... 283 19,546DEATHS REGISTERED IN 1932.
Chinese deaths 19,546
Non-Chinese deaths 283
19,829
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(b) the Tung Wah Hospitals for bodies where there has been no registered medical practitioner attend- ing.
(c) the Medical Officer of Health for bodies found in houses and for which he is called for diagnosis. (d) the Coroner for all bodies examined at the Public
Mortuaries-including
medico legal cases and
bodies dumped in the street or left at convents for disposal.
(e) the friends and relatives or the police in certain
cases.
The following table shows the number of deaths certified by the various authorities certifying:
RETURN OF CERTIFIED AND UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
Non Chinese
Chinese
Authority certifying
cause of death
Number of cases
Percen- tage of the whole
Percen-
Number
of cases
tage of
the whole
Medical Practitioner in At-
tendance...
268
94.6
11,493
58.7
Medical Officer of Health ...
2
0.7
426
2.2
Tung Wah Hospital
1,013
5.18
Tung Wah Eastern Hospital.
491
2.51
Kwong Wah Hospital
147
0.6
Coroner from information
received from the M. O.
i/c. Mortuaries
13
4.64
5,976
30.5
Total.....
283
DEATHS REGISTERED IN 1932.
Chinese deaths
Non-Chinese deaths
19,546
19,546
283
19,829
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