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DISTRICTS.

RETURNS OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS FOR THE YEAR 1887.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN COMMUNITY.

BIRTHS.

DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

CHINESE.

DEATHS.

GRAND TOTAL.

BIRTHS.

DEATHS.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 14TH JULY, 1888. 739

5,317

Boys. Girls. Total. Males. Females. Total.

Boys.

Girls.

Total. Males.

Sex

Females. Unknown.

Total.

Victoria,.

100

90

190

176

67

243

725

583

1,308

2,444

1,802

4.

4,250

1,498

4.493

Kanlung,

2

心

4

1

35

28

63

273

142

10

425

67

426

Shaukiwán,

49

37

86

133

90

228

86

224

Aberdeen,

19

:

:

17

36

84

59

144

36

145

Stanley,

:

8

10

18

19

29

18

29

TOTAL,...

DEATHS.

British and FOREIGN COMMUNITY.

102

92

323

Annual Birth-Rate | Annual Death-Rate

per 1,000 for the Year.

194

179

67

246

836

675

1,51 2,953 2,103

15

5,071

1,705

DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

ESTIMATED POPULATION.

per 1,000

for the Year.

Males. Females. Total.

Europeans, exclusive of Portuguese,....... 76

Of the Deaths in Victoria, there were in the-

British and Foreign Community,

10,552

18.38

23.31

Portuguese,

62

Italian Convent,

163

394

001

Indians, &c.,

59

Chinese.

.175,410

8.61

28.90

Asile de la Ste. Enfance,

168

291

459

Non-Residents,

49

Tung Wa Hospital,

944

248

1,192

Whole Population,......

*185,962

9.16

28.59

TOTAL.

246

TOTAL,

1,275

933

2,208

* This does not include the moving population.

Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 8th March, 1888.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Registrar General.