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Appendix B.

MORTALITY STATISTICS,

For the Year ended 31st December, 1896.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN COMMUNITY.

The whole Colony, Death Rate, Civil Population,...........

CHINESE COMMUNITY.

371

29.5 per 1,000 per annum.

Victoria Registration District, Death Rate,-Land Population,

26.1

per 1,000 per annum.

Boat

13.1

11

27

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Kaulung

Land

16.2

13

31

"1

Boat

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"1

44.7 S

11

Shaukiwán

Land

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*

17

1

34.3|

}}

73

Boat

31.4

22

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21

32

Aberdeen

Land

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);

+

29.7

""

37

Boat

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>1

20.6

""

9.6)

JI

Stanley

22

Land

48.2

27

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"

Boat

"

71

26.3

5

The whole Colony

Land

Boat

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}}

27

17

"

"}

"

25.21 22.4f

Land and Boat Population, 24.8

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75

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33

SANITARY BOARD ROOM,

HONGKONG, 30th January, 1897.

British, Foreign & Chinese Community, excluding

Army and Navy, ..

25.0

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*

HUGH MCCALLUM,

Secretary.