Registrar-Generals-Department-Annual-report-1965-1966 — Page 54

Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Kowloon ...

New Territories

Islands District

Sai Kung District

Tai Po District

Tsuen Wan District

Yuen Long District

1,465

156

145

773

102

982

2,158

3,623

This total represented a decrease of 1,642 on the 1964-65 total, fewer applications having been received in the Islands, Sai Kung and Tai Po Districts. By 31st March 1966 the total number of applications on the waiting list for all urban and rural districts had been reduced to 87 as compared with 639 outstanding on 31st March 1965. Of the 87 out- standing applications, 24 were in the urban area and 55 in the Islands and Sai Kung Districts.

159. Table XXXII gives the number of births post-registered after one year from birth during the period 1945-57 and the years 1957-58 to 1965-66, and Table XXXIII the 1965-66 numbers in each age group by sex. The latter shows that of the 3,623 post-registrations 1,536 were in respect of males and 2,087 in respect of females, and also that 2,914 were in respect of persons under 20 years of age. The preponderance of females appears to indicate that more care was taken at the time of birth to register males than females. The age group with the highest number of post-registrations was the 5-9 group, reflecting the demand for birth certificates for school purposes.

160. The 1,465 births post-registered after one year at the urban district Registries were partly in respect of cases where the parents had neglected to register the birth during the war, or had been unable to do so owing to there being no facilities during the war, and partly in respect of cases where the birth was believed to have been registered, but owing to the loss during the war of the register in question and also of the birth certificate issued at the time, no record of the birth was extant.

161. During the year post-registration birth certificates were issued for 20 foundling children in various orphanages, baby homes, and charitable institutions, whose births had not been registered on admission.

Deaths Registered

162. Table XXXIV gives the numbers of deaths registered by sex and race, and the crude death and infant mortality rates for the years

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