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21. During the year, 68,500 births as compared with 60,600 in 1950 were registered. The figure is the highest so far in the history of the registration of births in the Colony.

22. In addition to the 68,500 births registered, (a) 752 births as against 564 of last year were post-registered, and (b) 454 births as compared with 513 in 1950 were re-registered in accordance with the Ordinance introduced in December, 1947, which permits re-registration of births recorded in the registers which were either lost or destroyed during the Japanese Occupation.

23. Table 2 shows the number of births recorded and the birth-rate per thousand according to the population estimates from 1934 when the present Births and Deaths Ordinance was introduced.

1934

1935

Year

:

Table 2

Births Registered 1994-1951.

No. of Births Registered

Birth rate using estimated population

20,886

22.11

GTA

25,037

25.0

1936

1+

27.383

ET.B

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1937

+

32,303

25.19

1938

36,897

24.5

1939

46,676

26.7

1940

*

45,064

24.73

1941

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45.000

27.44

1942

1943

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F

10,313

20,732

But munitable (Japanese Occupation)

1944

1945

1946

1947

++

1943

...

1949

1950

1951

*

Year

No. of Births Registered

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A

13,687

Birth rate using estimated population

Not available (Japanese Occupation)

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3,712

31,098

20.1

42,473

24.3

47.475

26.4

64,774

29.5

60,600

26.8

68,500

34.

24. The post-registered and re-registered births are not re- corded in the above table.

25. It will be seen from the Table that the highest birth rate since 1934 was recorded in 1951,

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26. Except in outlying places in the New Territories, where deaths are recorded at the nearest Police Station as being from natural causes or otherwise, as an investigation by the Police suggests, all deaths have to be certified by a registered medical practitioner and the nomenclature adopted is that of the Inter- national Statistical Classifications of Diseases and Injuries and Causes of Death. 7.0% of the total deaths were recorded at the Police Stations as being from natural causes,

27. 20,580 deaths were registered during the year, a figure representing an increase of 2.115 deaths over the year 1950, in spite of the decrease of population. The death rate calculated by using the estimated population is 10.2 as compared with 8.2 of last year.

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