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Table VI b.

Number of Births and Deaths registered at the various registration offices in the Colony during the year 1907.

Registration Office.

Registrar General's Office,

No. 2 Police Station,

No. 7 Police Station,

Shankiwan,..

Aberdeen,

Stanley,

Yaumati,..

Kowloon City,

Shamshuipo,.

Total,.......

Births.

Deaths.

TOTAL.

797

5,115

5,912

117

138

255

157

70

227

50

356

406

39

194

233

11

27

38

53

872

925

102

222

324

94

292

386

*1,420

* Including 4 births registered after the expiration of 12 months.

Table VI c.

CHINESE BIRTH RATE.

7.286

8,706

1

3

5

6

9

Number of females over 15.

Births registered.

Probable No. of births.

Year.

In the Colony.

In Victoria.

In the Colony.

In Victoria.

In the Colony.

in Victoria.

Families Percentage

of 8 to 3.

In Victoria.

1891

40,500

26,800

1,529

1,255

1,529

1,255

14,100

52

1897

46,200 31,400

1,125

858

1,744

1,470

21,700

69

1901

51,500

32,900

848

663

1,944

1,541

25,100

76

1906

59,400

35,200

801

644

2,243

1,648

26,000

74

Note.-Columns 6 and 7. Exclusive of births of newly born infants who were taken to the Convents

or abandoned.

Columns 2, 4 and 6.

Exclusive of the New Territories (including New Kowloon).