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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 226.

The following Returns of Births and Deaths for the year 1888, which were laid before the Legislative Council on the 6th instant, are published for general information. Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th May, 1889.

DISTRICTS.

By Command,

RETURNS OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS FOR THE YEAR 1888.

BRITISH ANd Foreign COMMUNITY.

CHINESE.

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

GRAND TOTAL.

Vietoria,.

Kaulung,

Shankiwán,

Aberdeen,

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH MAY, 1889.

6,034

BIRTHS.

DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

DEATHS.

Boys.

Girls. Total. Males. Females.

Total. Boys.

Girls.

Sex

Total. Males. Females. Unknown. Total.

98

91

189

191

57

248

672

508

1,180 2,700 1,976

4,679

1,369

4,927

I

3

1

48

34

82

320

206

533

86

534

:

69

50

119

163

108

271

119

271

28

26

54

139

101

I

241

54

241

22

12

34

36

25

61

34

61

ESTIMATED POPULATION.

Annual Birth-Rate Annual Death-Rate

per 1,000 for the Year.

per 1,000

for the Year.

99

94

193

192

57

249

839

630

1,469

3,358 2,416

11

5,785

1,662

DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Registrar General.

Males. Females. Total.

Europeans, exclusive of Portuguese,... 75

Of the Deaths in Victoria, there were in the-

British and Foreign Community,

10,692

18.05

23.28

Portuguese,

78

Italian Convent,.

192

412

604

Indians, &c.,

Non-Residents,

46

Chinese,

.179,530

8.18

32.22

Asile de la Ste. Eufauce,

187

313

500

50

Tung Wa Hospital,

1,073

366

1,439

Whole Population,.........

*190,222

8.78

31.72

TOTAL,

249

TOTAL,

1,452

1,091

2,543

Stanley,

TOTAL,..

DEATHS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN COMMUNITY.

Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 19th February, 1889.

* This does not include the moving population.

421