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Typhoon of 1868, were deducted from the above averages, the percentage of death, strength would be 4:19.

average

Table 1.8. Showing the fived buropean population in Houghing in 1850, (including Americans and

Portugues

I of Europeans including women & Children

880

wese), and the proportion of&caths..

-I" of deaths Peportion of deaths.

The foregoing

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10.0 fcent.

foregoing table gives a fallacions computation of the comparative suortality to the fixed population; for, although the sailors and "aliens" are excluded from the calculation of letrength, they go to swell the rate of mintality, and it should be observed that the migratory Suropean population affords the greatect source of mortality in the land, masmuch as they their maladies with them, on

réten

import

require them by debauchery and utter riettlersness.

Whave no means

but I have good

of emecting this statement,

reason to believe that the actual

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• rate of suntality amongst the heterogeneous huropean population of Stoughing, does not execed one half of the immbers stated in the table.

I have omitted from this report a table exhibiting the rate of mortality in the entire population. I find this year that, the population. either having been more

recurately computed on the deaths less certainly ascertained, _ the latter being

the

most probable inference, - there wist, such a romantiable relative disproportion between them that no reliance ean be placed in the Statement. The total Chinese population amounts to 31,987, in which there is the woord of only 125 deaths being, indied, at the rate of 0.39, or one third

per

ecut.

the

Touching the mortality amongst Trops, I have statistical information relating only to the 59th Regiment, which exhibits, during the past year, a fecurful mortality. On the first of chumary, 1850, the total strength of the Regiment, excluding, of course, the

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