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The 15 deaths occurring in the Chinese Squadron which were registered in the Colony were as follows:-

Pneumonia. Syphilis,

·

Abscess of liver,

Drowning,

Heart Disease,

Compound fracture of leg,

.Measles,

Typhoid Fever,

Meningitis,

Intestinal Obstruction,

Aneurism,

Cirrhosis of liver,

1

1

1

2

1

1

1

3

1

1

1

1

The deaths of persons employed in the Mercantile Marine or in Foreign Navies which were registered in the Colony were 36 and their causes as follows

Bullet wound,

Dysentery,

Small-pox,

Heart disease,

Asphyxia,

Cancer.

Bright's disease,

Hæmorrhage,

Fracture of skull,

Phthisis,

Apoplexy,..

1

Typhoid Fever, Tuberculosis,

2

NOT

5

Beri-beri,

1

2

Peritonitis,.

1

Cholera,...

1

Abscess of lung,

1

Cut throat..

1

Burns,

1

1

1

Epilepsy. Unknown,

The total number of deaths therefore which occurred amongst the Non-Chinese resident civil population was 215, and allowing 1,100 for the Non-Chinese floating population this gives a death-rate of 22′99 per 1,000 for the resident Non-Chinese civil population.

Three deaths from Plague occurred amongst the Non-Ghinese community comprising -one Portuguese, one Indian and one Malay.

Table I shows the number and causes of deaths registered during the year.

The following Table of population, births and deaths is given for the purpose of ready comparison with similar tables given in the reports from other Colonies:-

Europeans and Whites.

Africans.

East Indians.

Chinese Mixed

and

and Malays. Coloured.

TOTALS.

Number of Iuhabitants in 1905,

10,835

20

3,907

360,228

2,860

877,850

of Births

in

145

1

46

996

101

"

of Deaths

in

137

80

6,298

79

1,289

6,594

"

"J

of Immigrants in

140,483

of Emigrants in

64,341

"7

of Inhabitants in 1904,

11,532

20

4,354

55

Increase,

342,350

17,872

2,944 361,206

16,644

07

Decrease...

697

447

84

Uncertified Deaths.

Ďuring the year the bodies of 464 persons who had died without having been attended by a medical man were inspected by the Sanitary staff, and enquiries made from the rela- tives as to the probable cause of death, the bodies being sent to the mortuary whenever there was any reason to suspect that the deaths were due to infectious disease.