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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
The statistics as exhibited in the preceding table (Jh. 12) have been deduced from a census that was taken under the supervision of Mr. May, the Superintendent of Police. No method could have been adopted more calculated to ensure accuracy than the one resorted to by him, and there is no doubt that it has produced a result which is the nearest attainable approximation to truth. Mr. May himself allows for inaccuracies arising out of the unsuitable period at which his inquiries were made, many persons being then absent from the Colony to celebrate the new year.
The population of this city is every day affected by immigration, and although strangers who visit the Colony for a short time will swell the numbers of the living, they contribute nothing to the records of the dead; nor is it possible to obtain any account of their destinies.
The Chinese hold very solemn superstitions relating to death. Their bodily relics are the property of their surviving friends, with whom it is a religious obligation to preserve and deposit them within the precincts of their feudal birthplace. Consequently, whoever is not indigenous to this Island, on departing to his own country, may have his ashes carried there in the event of death. Instances of this kind must annually occur amongst persons who are unknown to their survivors here. Notwithstanding this source of error in the returns of general mortality, which will constitute a certain and invariable average, the proportion of dead to the living will, in comparison with other years, be corrected, for there is reason to believe that...
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COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO | BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE
PUBLIC
RECORD OFFICE, LONDON |
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133
PUBLIC
RECORD OFFICE
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statistics as
exhibited in the preceding, table (Jh. 12) have been deduced, was taken under
the
supervision of Mr May, the Superintendent of Police. No method could have been adopted
more calculated to ensure no
one recorted to
by
accuracy him, and there
than the
is no
doubt.
that it has produced, a result which is
the nearest attainable- approximation to truth.
Mr. May heimself allows for
vira ccuracies
of the unsuitable period at
arising out of which his
inquiries
Averl
made, many
persons being then absent from the Colony
to celebrate the new
year:
The population of this city is every day affected by immigration, and although
strangers
the adventurous and unknown
who visit the Colony for a short time will swell the numbers
of the livings
of
they contribute: nothing to the records
now is it possible to obtain any
the dead;
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account of their destinies.
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very
solemn
superstitions relating to death. Their bodily
the property of their surviving
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obligation to preserve and defreit them within the precincts of their feudal.__
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occur amongst persons who
are
unknownd
to their survivons here. Notwithstanding
" error in the returns of general
this source
mortality.
of
which will constituto u certain
and invariable
average,
the proportion of dead
to the living will in comparison with other years, _ if the calculation of population be "corrected, - ( for there is reason to believe that
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