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of

are

cxcepted

of this Island by that most certain means modifying disease, and counteracting and destroying it's sources _ the presence of civilization, the

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records of this year, peculiar for the intensity of

its summer, would have presented a melancholy-catalogue of disease and death. Tabl: »o 10. – Thowing the fixed European

population in Hongkong, during the year " 1848, and the firéportion of deaths .

The P of Evropian The No of deaths

including women including the of Proportion of death's.

and children.

963

uzinin and chuthin's

135

12.0 for cent

This table is based upon information supplied by the Registion General. In the

table of last year,

conceponding table.

the

Hearren

were ceapted from the aggregate of strength and deaths." "Europeans include. "Europeans, Americans, and

Portugues", many of the latte

are

indigenous,

and in Lome

there has been

an

infusion of Chinese blood . The military & 0,

iiv

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this return. The amount

86

of

mortality thus furnished by the Registrar General does not correspond with the returns : made by

the Colonial. Surgeon of Europeans buried in the Colonial burying ground, and a return, most- politely furnished, and collated with great care, by His Highness the Roman battiolic prelate, of Europeans buried in the Roman Catholic cemeteries. These documents.

afford the following results.

Buried in the Colonial burying ground in 1848.

Civilians..

20

Merchant seamen – 25

Naval

7.

18

53.

Buried in the Roman Catholic ground.

bivilians of all classes.

35.

Total 88.

If from these, the seamen, whose diseases are for the most part imported, and who cannot be regarded as belonging

to the fixed-