4542-1906-Reports-on-the-Health-and-Sanitary-Condition-of-the-Colony-of-Hongkong-for-the-year-1905 — Page 10

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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 11, 1906.

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The 15 deaths occurring in the Chinese Squadron which were registered in the Colony were as follows :--

Abscess of liver,

Pneumonia.

Syphilis,

Drowning,

Heart Disease,

Compound fracture of leg.. Measles,

Typhoid Fever,

Meningitis.

Intestinal Obstruction,

Aneurism,

Cirrhosis of liver,

1

1

1

3

1

1

1

The deaths of persons employed in the Mercantile Marine or in Foreign Navies which were registered in the Colony were 36 and their causes as follows:-

Bullet wound,

Dysentery,

Smallpox,

Heart disease,

Asphyxia,

Cancer,

Bright's discuse,

Hæmorrhage,

Fracture of skull,

Phthisis,

Apoplexy..

1

Typhoid Fever,

2

3

Tuberculosis,

2

5

Beri-beri,

1

Peritonitis...

1

Cholera,..

Abscess of lung,

1

Cut throat,.

1

Burns,

1

Epilepsy,

1

Unknown,

1

2

The total number of deaths therefore which occurred amongst the Non-Chinese resident civil population was 215, and allowing 1,100 for the Non-Chinese floating population this gives a death-rate of 22.99 per 1,000 for the resident Non-Chinese civil population.

Three deaths from Plague occurred amongst the Non-Chinese community comprising one Portuguese, one Indian and one Malay.

Table I shows the number and causes of deaths registered during the year.

The following Table of population, births and deaths is given for the purpose of ready comparison with similar tables given in the reports from other Colonies

Europeans

and Whites.

Africaus

East Indians.

Chinese and Malays.

Mixed and Coloured.

TOTALS.

Number of Inhabitants in 1905,

10,835

20

8,907

360,228

2,860

377,850

of Births

in

"

145

46

996

101

of Deaths

iu

137

80

6,298

79

1,289

6.594

of Immigrants in

22

of Emigrants in

37

of Inhabitants in 1904,

11,532

20

4,351

Increase.

140,483

64,341

342,356

17,872

2,944 361,206

16,644

07"

Decrease......

697

447

84

Uncertified Deaths.

During the year the bodies of 464 persons who had died without having been attended by a medical mau were inspected by the Sanitary staff, and enquiries made from the rela- tives as to the probable cause of death, the bodies being sent to the mortuary whenever there was any reason to suspect that the deaths were due to infectious disease.

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