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EXTRACTS FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS FOR 1930.
Inspector General of Police. Administrative Reports. K. 6
In 1930-1,208 children's bodies were found by the Police in streets and elsewhere. This compares with 1,851 in 1929.
[NOTE:-It is interesting to note that throughout the last five years the majority of these dumped bodies have been those of male children.]
Superintendent of Prisons.
Administrative Reports p. L. 4.
1930.-44 boys were admitted as Juveniles i.e., under 16 years of age, during the year, with sentences varying from 48 hours detention to 12 months hard labour, but only 19 were treated as Juvenile Offenders; the others in the opinions of the Superintendent and Medical Officer being over 16 years of age. In 3 cases corporal punishment was awarded by courts in addition to sentences of imprisonment. Director of Medical & Sanitary Services. Administrative Reports, M. 9.
The position to-day is that 500,000 people are being accommodated in an area not exceeding 400 acres in extent where the streets are narrow and the houses four and five The people stories high. The density is 1,250 to the acre. are packed together in the houses like steerage passengers on emigrant ships. In some cases there are tiers of bunks placed against the walls as in the old fashioned ships, in others the rooms are divided into cubicles or cabins each measuring perhaps eight feet by eight feet and having These cabins are not the partitions 6 feet in height.
temporary abodes of persons on a voyage but the more or There is little or no less permament homes of the people. room for kitchens, and latrine accommodation is limited to pail closets on the roofs of the buildings.
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It goes without saying that the maintenance of satisfactory standard of sanitation under such conditions is a most difficult problem and one which cannot be solved without the willing co-operation of the people. One thing is certain so long as buildings are over-crowded and insanitary no amount of external sanitation will give immunity from disease.
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M. 19.—The overcrowded, ill-ventilated and badly light- ed houses combined with the expectorating habits of the Chinese lower classes furnish sufficient explanation for the prevalence of respiratory troubles.
M. 30.—The births registered as having occurred in the Colony were:
10,756
Chinese
Non-Chinese
378
11,134
M. 31. The number of deaths of infants under one year were Chinese 6,180, Non-Chinese 28. If the figure of births notified represent
ated the total births in the Colony the infantile mortality figure would be 557.5. This figure is certainly too great but there can be no doubt that the true rate is a high one.
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