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Daring 1922 however there was a considerable improvement in the registration of Chinese births as shown by the following table:-
Births registered during 1922.
Total.
Chinese. Non-Chinese,
Male. 1921. 1922. 1,978 2,205 194 188
Female. 1921. 1922.
1921. 1922.
1,275 1,317 171 194
3,253 3,522
365 382
Totals.......2,172 2,393
1,446 1,511
3,618 3.904
This gives a general civil birth rate of 669 per 1,000 as compared with 6-1 in 1921.
The birth rate amongst the Non-Chinese Civil Community was 22784 as compared with 25-88 in 1921.
The birth rate amongst the Chinese as calculated from thự registered births, was 6-25 per 1,000 as compared with 568 per 1,000 in 1921.
The following table shows the birth rates (calculated from registeres births) amongst the Non-Chinese and Chinese Civil Community for the last ten years,
BIRTH RATES FROM 1913 to 1922.
5-8
Your. Non-Chinese- Chinese.
1913...
158
X9
1914.
16-8
68
1915..
13-2
377
1916.
20:05
1917
20:08
4:0
1918
22:07
3.6
1919
2016
39
1920.
19-78
3-96
1921
25.88
5-68
1922.
22.84
6:25
The preponderance of male births over female has always been marked in this Colony but is less for the year 1922 than in previous years except for 1921.
There were 167 Chinese male births registered to every 100 Chinese female births. During the years 1921, 1920, 1919 and 1918 the proportions were 155 to 100, 190 tu 100, 215 to 100 and 194 to 100.
Amongst the Non-Chinese comumunity the proportion of nale to female births for the year 1922 was 97 to 100,
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The nationality of the civilian Non-Chinese parents was as follows:-
British 165. Portuguese 72, Indian 55, American 10. Filipino 8, Spanish 6, Japanese 6, French 2, Malay 7. Dutch 2. Jewish 2, Eurasian 3, Australian. Annaniite, West Indian, German, Norwegian, Persian, Javanese, Danish and Canadian I eneh.
DEATHS.
The total number of deaths in the Colony during 1922 was 14,569 (11,880 in 1921),
The general civilian death rate was 25′16 per 1,000 (20-27 in 1921).
The Chinese deaths numbered 14,241 (11,604 in 1921).
The Chinese death rate was 25-47 per 1,000 (20-29 in 1921). The Non-Chinese deaths numbered 328 including 17 from the Navy and Army.
The death rate for the Non-Chinese Civil community was 2016 per 1,000 (18:08 per 1,000 in 1921).
The nationality of the civilian Non-Chinese deaths was as Follows:-
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British 50, Filipino 59, Indian 57, Japanese 43.
Portuguese 64, Malay 15, American 5, French 7, Eurasian I, Dutch, Annamite, Spanish, Russian 2, Swiss, German, Norwegian, 2, Jewish 1. Italian I, West Indian 1, Swedish 1. African 1.
AGE DISTRIBUTION OF DEATHS.
The number of deaths of children under one year of age was 4,216 of which 4,165 were Chinese and 51 Non-Chinese.
Of these 1.067 Chinese and 15 Non-Chinese were under one month old.
The ratio of infants' deaths to the total deaths registered was 28-9 per cent. For Chinese deaths alone the ratio was 29*2 per cent, while for the Non-Chinese it was 1515 per cent.
A true infantile mortality rate cannot be calculated as it is not known how many children were born in the Colony owing to the habit of not registering births amongst the Chinese.
Owing also to the constant flow of Chinese between Hongkong and China the death rate cannot be corrected by distributing them according to the place of origin of their causes.
The deaths of children between one and five years of age numbered 2,234 of which 2,218 were Chinese.
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