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It has been computed that the percentage of female non-Chinese population of the Colony is about 30 per cent. of the total non-Chinese population. The figure 16.9 therefore shews that amongst this portion of the community the females have suffered less in proportion to the males.
Amongst the Chinese however the reverse is the case unless the proportion of females to males amongst the Chinese has very much increased since the 1901 census when the figure given was 271 per cent. In the epidemic of 1901 the Chinese female cases shewed a percentage of 36'4 and in this year, although this has been slightly reduced to 33-8, yet the rate is still very high.
Cases amongst children shew a very high figure for females, there having been 162 females and 155 males attacked of ages under 15 years.
The preponderance of female cases over male cases at the age period of 60 years and over may be accounted for by the fact that the male population being essentially a labouring one has not so many in this age period in proportion to its numbers as has the female population.
Death-rates. The total number of known deaths has been 1,206 which gives a mortality rate for the epidemic of 88'4 per cent. If this be analysed with regard to sex it is seen that out of 922 male cases there were 792 deaths giving a male mortality of 85.9 per cent., and out of 441 female cases there were 414 deaths giving a female mortality of 93-8 per cent. The death-rate for this year is there- fore the smallest since the outbreak of Plague in 1894.
The following are the death-rates for each epidemic since 1894 :~~~
1894 1896 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903
Reath-rate, ...92·7% 89-5% 89·0% 96·1% 95·5% 95·2° 97·5% 88·4%
The Hospital death-rate as given by Dr. THOMSON in his Report of July 6th of this year is 60-6 per cent. which is also the lowest on record since the outbreak of Plague in the Colony. The following Table shews the death-rate of the epi- demic as regards nationality and sex, and it will be noticed here again that the highest figure is that for Chinese females, namely, 95-72 per cent.
The death-rates for the different nationalities are shewn in the following Table for each sex but not divided into different age periods.
DEATH-RATES PER NATIONALITY AND SEX.
Chinese,
1,245 cases and 1,161 deaths
824 males with 758
93.25 per cent.
91.98
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403
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21
48.83
21
19
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37 males with
16
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6 females
5
83.33
19
22 cases and
9
40.90
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17 males with
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5 females
14 cases and 10 males with
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