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according to the Chinese reckoning, under which, for instance, if a child is born the day before Chinese New Year, it is regarded as being two years old on the following day. These Chinese ages are converted by the District Registrars to ages according to the European reckoning, but obviously errors can easily be made in the process. There is, more- over, no doubt but that a great many people are extremely hazy about their own and their relatives' ages. A further complicating factor is the tendency of relatives to exaggerate the age of the deceased, it being not uncommon in public announcements to add one month to the age for every year of the deceased's true age. The District Registrars, however, use their best endeavours to ascertain the correct age, and the figures given for the various groups are probably pretty fair approximations. Accident and Suicide Deaths
170. Table XXXVI shows the numbers of deaths in 1963 by accident and suicide classified by causes, sex, and age group. This revealed that 1,220 people died by accident or suicide as follows, the 1962 figures being given in brackets for comparison:
Accidents
Traffic accidents...
Accidental poisoning
...
...
Accidental falls from heights
Other accidents
...
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...
...
...
304
...
(314)
27
(21)
150
(185)
369
...
(632)
850 (1,152)
89
...
(98)
95
...
...
(84)
186
(180)
370
(362)
1,220 (1,514)
Suicides
By poisoning
By hanging
By other means
***
...
...
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As will be seen deaths by accident declined by 302, but there were 8 more suicides. There were 603 male accidental deaths as compared with 247 female. Of the 370 suicides 216 were of males and 154 of females. 171. Full statistics of the causes of the deaths registered may be found in the Annual Departmental Report of the Director of Medical and Health Services.
Re-registration of Births and Deaths
172. The Births Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance (Cap. 175), and the Deaths Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance (Cap. 176),
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