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the infants during the first year of life, advising the mothers as to the maner of feeding, Fifteen of these infants have been taken out of the Colony while two have been placed in the Convents. Of the remainder, twenty-two were either still-born or died immediately after birth, and twenty-five others have died from convulsions and other infantile ailments, while one was overlaid and one was a twin which was weakly from birth; the remainder are alive and well. Two only of the mothers have died, one from Bright's Disease and the other from Phthisis. These midwives consult Dr. SIBREE in all complications, an 1 she was

called to 28 of the above cases.

Scarlet Fever.

Scarlet Fever is practically unknown in this Colony, but one case was reportel in January, the patient being a young European girl of 18 years, who ha I lived in the Colony all her life and was employed as a type-writer, she recovered.

INTERMENTS.

The following number of interments in the various cemeteries of the Colony have been recorded during the year :-

Non-Chinese Cemeteries.-Colonial Cemetery,

Roman Catholic Cemetery,

Mahommedan Cemetery,

Jewish Cemetery,

Parsee Cemetery,

133

1,018

57

0

1,210

Chinese Cemeteries.-Mount Caroline Cemetery,

528

Kai Lung Wan

13

Tung Wa Hospital

194

2,716

Infectious Diseases

"

Cheung Sha Wan,

507

"

17

Kennedy Town,

4

Protestant

43

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Shaukiwan

307

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Aberdeen

191

"

Stanley

26

Shek O

2

12

Ma Tau Wai

944

Shai Yu Shek

221

:

11

Sham Shui Po

218

12

Christian

32

Kowloon City

22

Eurasian

2

Chung Ling Tin

5

11

5,930

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