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population of the Colony, be excepted, the deaths of bivilians would be reduced to 55, which would give a proportion of mortality in relation to the fixed European population of 3.7% per cent. I allow the Registrar

General's statistics, however, preference to oww, and have constructed my

my

5 any

table on the

basis of his calculations, but the discrepancy

is

inexplicable. Table No. 11.

ad

less,

The entire population of Hongkong

and proportion of deaths amongst people of all nations in 1847 and 1848.

The entire Shet of deaths Proportion of death's Years population. fferm of all nation to population.

1847 23,872

289

1.14 for cent

1848. 21,514

384

1.78

It appears that in

the

6 year

compared with 1847, the population

1848

мна

and the enortality greated. In the year 1847, Manchester, which is remarkable for being exempt from the invasions of epidemics,

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experienced a relative mortality exceeding the average of years, in consequence of the influx of rich, retreating from the "Famine" in that year therefore, the proportion of mortality " 4.9 per cont . The average proportion of - in Manchester is about 3.1 per

mortality.

cent, per annung

the

which is

only

little below

a.

average proportion of mortality amonget Europeans in Hongkong. In the face of these facts, policies of life insurances continue. to be 100 fur cont higher in Hongkong than

in Manchester!

My friend. Dr Berlande, of the Seaman's Hospital, has" "kindly finished. me with a tabular view of his practice in that Institution, during the year.

1848,

whereby it appears that there were 203 cases treated, and 30 deaths occurred.

D* Harland says " According to the above table, the mortality for 1848 is