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Table VI b.

Number of Births and Deaths registered at the various registration offices in the Colony during the year 1907.

Registration Office.

Registrar General's Office,

No. 2 Police Station,

No. 7 Police Station,

Shaukiwan,..

Aberdeen,

Stanley,..

Yaumati,.

Kowloon City,

Shamshuipo,..

Total,.......

Births.

Deaths.

TOTAL.

797

5,115

5,912

117

138

255

157

70

227

50

356

406

39

191

233

]]

27

38

53

872

925

102

222

324

94

292

386

*1,420

7.286

8,706

* Including 4 births registered after the expiration of 12 months.

Table VI c.

CHINESE BIRTH RATE,

1

2

3

4

5

7

9

Number of females over 15.

Births registered.

Probable No. of births.

Year.

In the Colony.

·

In Victoria.

In the Colony,

In Victoria,

In the Colony.

Families Percentage

in

of Victoria. 8 to 3.

In Victoria.

1891

40,500 26,800

1,529

1,255

1,529

1,255

14,100

52

1897

46,200 31,400

1,125

$58

1,744

1,470

21,700

69

1901

51,500 32,900

848

663

1,944

1,541

25,100

76

1906

59,400 35,200

801

641

2,243

1,648

26,000

7+

Note. Columns 6 and 7. Exclusive of births of newly born infants who were taken to the Convents

or abandoned.

Columns 2, 4 and 6. Exclusive of the New Territories (including New Kowloon).