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Table IV. (A.)

RETURNS OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS FOR THE YEAR 1899.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN COMMUNITY.

CHINESE.

396

GRAND TOTAL.

BIRTHS.

DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

DEATHS.

Births.

DEATHS.

Sex.

Boys.

Girls.

Total.

Males. Females, Unknown. Total. Boys.

Girls.

Total.

Males. Females. Unknown. Total.

Sex

Victoria,

122

105

227

153

63

216

444

240

684

2,622 2,022

8

4,652

911

4,868

Koulung,

25

25

50

16

6

22

25

14

39

501

251

755

89

777

Shaukiwán,

1

1

2

♡

36

25

61

193

99

292

63

295

Aberdeen,

27

24

51

152

63

215

52

215

Stanley,

9

8

17

18

26

17

26

TOTAL..

149

131

280

171

70

241

541

311

852

3,499

2,413

४

5,940

1,132

6,181

DEATHS,

DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

ESTIMATED POPULATION.

BRITISHI & FOREIGN COMMUNITY.

Annual Birth-Rate Annual Death-Rate per 1,000.

per 1.000.

DISTRICTS.

Europeans, exclusive of Portuguese,........110

Of the Deaths in Victoria, there were in the-

Males. Females.

Sex.

Unknown.

Total.

British and Foreign Community,

16,822

11.38

15.23

Portuguese,

52

Tung Wa Hospital,.

842

242

1,084

Italian Convent,

121

200

421

Chinese,

243,490

8.50

24.40

Indians, &c.,

79

Asile de la Ste. Enfance,...

381

699

1,080

Whole Population,

.259,312

4,36

23.64

TOTAL,...

.241

TOTAL,.

1,384

1,241

2,585