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Table IV.

(4.)—RETURN OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTERED DURING THE YEAR 1904.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN COMMUNITY.

CHINESE.

GRAND TOTAL.

5,882

1,205

6,118

1.25 --

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

per 1,000.

BIRTHS.

DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

DEATHS.

Boys.

Girls. 'Total. Males.

Females.

Total.

Boys. Girls.

Total.

Males.

Females.

Şex

Unknown.

Total.

Victoria,

96

112

208

146

40

206

437

185

622

2,510

1,690

12

4,202

830

4,408

Kowloon,

23

32

66

29

1

30

122

92

214

644

358.

11

1,013

269

1,043

Shankiwan,

27

22

49

299

.134

433

49

433

Aberdeen,

60

16

46

127

74

201

46

201

10

Stanley,

6

11

25

8

33

11

· 33

DISTRICTS.

ESTIMATED POPULATION.

119

144

263

195

41

236

621

321

942

3,60,5

2,254

23

23

DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

Europeans, exclusive of Portuguese,..

93

Of the Deaths in Victoria, there were in the-

Males. Females. Total:

British and Foreign Community, (including Army and Navy),

. 18,900

13.9

12.48

Portuguese,

40 Tung Wa Hospital,.

1,200

310 1,510

:

Italian Convent,

26

147

173

Chinese,

Indians, &c.,

103

Asile de la Ste. Enfance,

262

495

757

Whole Population,

342,306

2.75

17.18

261,206

3.33

16.94

TOTAL,.

236

TOTAL,..

1,488

952.

2,440

TOTAL,

DEATHS.

BRITISH & FOREIGN COMMUNITY.