1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
:
Accident
Suicide
Male Female Total Male
Female Total
606
337
943
191
160
351
560
302
862
239
149
388
568
302
870
247
208
455
347
160
507
180
150
330
710
338
1,050*
310
230
540
* including 2 deaths of unknown sex.
184. Full statistics of the causes of the deaths registered may be found in Tables 12 and 48 of the Annual Departmental Report of the Director of Medical and Health Services.
Re-registration of Births and Deaths
185. The Births Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance and the Deaths Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance provide for the re- registration of births and deaths recorded in registers destroyed or lost during the Japanese occupation. 37 births were re-registered during the year, and altogether 5,770 births and 66 deaths have now been re-registered under these two Ordinances.
Adoptions
186. An Adopted Children Register is maintained at the General Register Office under the Adoption Ordinance. Table XLIII shows the relationship of adopters to the children adopted under the Adoption Ordinance in the past five years with figures for the five years from 1st January 1961 to 31st December 1965 shown in brackets. The numbers of adoptions over the past decade have been as follows:
Total
Male
Female
1961
63
121
184
1962
65
112
177
•
1963
46
99
145
1964
51
:
60
111
1965
47
76
123
...
D
1966
45
60
105
•
1967
39
54
93
1968
57
113
170
1969
120
151
271
1970
109
146
255
•
Total
642
992
1,634
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