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The opening of registration offices at East Point and West Point has been a great convenience; during the year 368 registrations were made at these two offices. The returns do not yet show clearly whether more births have been registered than would have. been the case without these offices. The Chinese births registered in Victoria during the last ten years were :—
Number of Births registered.
Year.
1896,...
738
1897,......
.858
1898,
.778
1899.
}
1900,
...684 .544
1901,.
...663
1902,...
.738
1903,
.550
1904,. 1905,
..622
.605
The number of deaths registered during the year was :--
Chinese,.. Non-Chinese,
.6,290 302
Total,....
..6,592
Exhumations.
Three hundred and eighty permits were issued to exhume human remains for removal to China or for re-burial in the Colony.
Removals of Bodies from Colony.
Six hundred and seventy certificates were issued by the Police for the removal of bodies from the Colony, as against 610 in 1904.
6.-Vaccination. Ordinance No. 2 of 1890.
(See Tables VIIa to VIId.)
The number of reminders issued during the year was 449, as compared with 298 in 1904. Reminders are now being issued to parents in the villages.
One satisfactory feature of the returns is the large number of vaccinations performed by the Tung Wa Hospital vaccinators in the villages. The number has increased from 164 in 1904 to 324 in 1905.
7.---Registration of Books. Ordinance No. 2 of 1888.
Sixty-nine books were registered during the year, as compared with 59 in 1904.
8.-Copyright in Works of the Fine Arts. Ordinance No. 17 of 1901.
One work-the first-was registered during the year. It consisted of a set of picture post-cards.
* The two district registries were opened on 1st July, 1904
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