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Indian Soldiers.

Indian Wives and Children.

Dysentery,

9

Inanition,..

Diarrhoea,..

1

Bronchitis,

Malarial Fever,

.10

Dentition,

Syphilis,

2

Enteritis,

1

1

1

1

Alcoholic Poisoning,

1

Gunshot Wound, (Suicide),

1

Debility,...

4

Anæmia,

..10

Pericarditis,

1

Bronchitis,

2

Pneumonia,

8

Phthisis,

.10

Asthma,

1

Pulmonary Embolism,

1

Enteritis,

1

Hepatitis,.

2

Bright's Disease,

1

Acute Nephritis,

1

Scurvy,

1

Tumour of Brain,.

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The fourteen deaths occurring in the China Squadron which were registered in this Colony were as follows:-

Enteric Fever,

Drowning,

Heart Disease,.

Aneurysm, (Aortic),.

5

Pneumonia,

2

Phthisis,

1

Nephritis, (Acute),.

1

2

1

2

The deaths occurring in persons employed in the Mercantile Marine or in Foreign Navies were 31 in number and the causes of death were as follows:--

Enteric Fever,.

Small-pox,

Diarrhoea,.

Dysentery,. Beri-Beri,

Heat Apoplexy,.

Fracture of Skull,

Peritonitis, (Injury),

Apoplexy,

Tetanus, (Traumatic),

Paralysis (Bulbar),

.4

Forward,.

.20

Heart Disease,

1

Pneumonia,

1

2

Phthisis,

2

.1

Empyæma,

1

2

Gastric Ulcer,

1

.3

Enteritis,

1

.1

Pancreatitis,..

1

3

.1

Hepatic Abscess,.. Jaundice,

1

1

.1

Debility,.

1

31

Carried forward.............20

The death from Beri-Beri occurred in a Japanese.

The total number of deaths, therefore, which occurred among the non-Chinese resident Civil community was 270; allowing 1,016 for the non-Chinese floating population, this is equal to a death-rate among the resident non-Chinese population of 31.6 per 1,000.

The principal causes of death among the non-Chinese resident Civil community were as follows:---

Bubonic Fever, (Plague),

Phthisis,

Malarial Fever,

Pneumonia,

Injuries,

Heart Disease,

.47

.34

Dysentery, Enteric Fever,

.18

General Tuberculosis,

.13

Apoplexy,

.12

Bright's Disease,

.11

Old Age,

9

7

7

7

6

6

UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.

During the year there were 563 deaths registered in the City of Victoria, of Chinese who had not been attended by a medical man, as compared with 533 during the previous year and 463 in 1899; in every such case the relatives of the deceased are interviewed and the dead bodies inspected