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TABLE 2.

Year

Live Stil Births Birthe

Total Live and Still Births

Pregnancy and Child bearing

Abortion

| No. of Death

Kate

No. of per 1,000 Death Birth

Fale

Maternal Mortality Rate

Ratc

Maternal Mortality.

26. A drop of 0.45 in the maternal mortality rate was noted when 1.14 per thousand live and still births was recorded ag compared with 1.59 per thousand live and still births in 1951.

27. The following Table sets out births, live and still, maternal deaths and maternal mortality rates per thousand live and still births during the years 1951 and 1952.

Causes of death

TABLE 4.

A kelebeke klappyEARLY ATAKUTOGATEJUSTEINEKONEKAJ KATENPTOPSK

Beri-beri AKLIUKAINEN MANAnorakbod**** PatternTamannatları DIREKTE Berachill Cancer, malignant discossa Cerebox-spined fever

Diphtherin

MAGINARYOTA PRANATADOPOUTPUTSUKIENKOLLE

KARAKTERED PAYOUTDODONTOLODONTOONOTTAKATOONAKOAN

Dienses of the heart

Enteritis and diarrhoea Тачская Intracranial lesions of vascular origin Molazim .....

*****P* Amanda MAKOWOOLOOK LEKKONOMINALAMAN

JONTAKTANOOGA

Non-venereal diseases of genito-urinary systĒZION

Old age, senility

Number of Dansha

1951

7959

45

$6

354

260

795

BOT

13

S

121

157

982

098

SPARANTANTKAPERATURANORUMPUT TOMADOGO NATION

NOPARANTA MONTANOOGA TAPEDAN KARNDE

2574

2940

49

08

430

400

35

46

328

$79

174

195

per

No. of 1,000 Deaths 1,000 Births

Birtha

per

Pneumonia (all farmor)

Other diseases of circulatory systemSUNAK DAN JAKARTAJN Other diseases of digestive system mana UERARIA MI Pedal Other discusss of nervous system and sense organ Other diseases of respiratory system

154

02

509

$80

MANA

TO

91

328

ата

4564

4249

1951

1952

KURTIDOG

68,500

71.976

1,100

1,157

69,680 109

73,133 NO

1,36

0,03

111

1.59

Premature births, congenital malfomatious and discrets of

early infancy

1644

1436

1.05

0.05

1.14

Smallpox

Taborcalous (olbar forms)..........

Syphilitic diseased magada a prema non ama men weten om en an Tuberculosis of respiratory system

95

73

ben en plakkokk kaj kladkam

3006

2461

1184

1112

28. The following Table gives the figures of deaths from toxæmias of pregnancy for the years 1951 and 1952:

Violence (accidente, suicide, homicide, etc.) Other defined dingdrem

7T8

776

Make a MANAGER PERIOADA alkanMPERVAN ARRAN

796

Cit-defined caİ DAYA KANAKKALAKANANDA...............................

1164

1133

TABLE 1.

Total..

20580

19459

Year

Deathy from Total Births Toxnerio of (including

Pregnancy

till-birtbus}

Death rate

DEC Thousand

1951

33

69,680

1953

21

73,133

0.5

0.3

Principal Causes of Death.

29. The following Table shows the principal causes of death for the years 1951 and 1952,

30. Further statistics relating to infectious diseases are set forth in Appendices 4 and 5.

III. PUBLIC HEALTH

Introduction

31. The Director of Medical & Health Services is respon- sible for public health administration throughout the Colony. However, the Urban Council exercises control over matters of general sanitation in the urban areas of Hong Kong and