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The deaths of persons employed in the Mercantile Marine or in Foreign Navies which were registered in the Colony were 31 and their causes as follows:---

Enteric Fever..

Dysentery,

Small-pox.

Diarrhoea,

Malaria,

Heart Disease,.

Cancer of Stomach,

Cancer of Tonsil,

Bright's Disease,

Fracture of Skull,

5

Rupture of Urethra,

1

Alcoholism,

1

1

Phthisis,

2

1

Pneumonia,

2

1

Empyæma,

2

3

Gangrene of Foot,

1

1

Beri-beri,...

2

1

Tetanus,

1

2

General Paralysis of the Insane, .... 1

The total number of deaths therefore which occurred amongst the Non-Chinese resident civil population was 224 and allowing 1,500 for the Non-Chinese floating population this gives a death-rate of 20-00 per 1,000 for the resident Non-Chinese civil population.

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.

TOTAL.

Number of Inhabitants in 1907

10,025

13

4,102 311,057

4,160

329,357

of Births

in

152

44

39

1,144

80

1,420

of Deaths

in

114

85

>>

7,009

76

7,286

+1

of Immigrants in

J

145,822

:

...

105,967

19

of Emigrants in

of Inhabitants in 1906

"

(Census Report)

12,525

13

4,229 307,701

4,170

328,638

Increase,

3,356

719

or

Decrease,.

2,500

127

10

The figures for 1906 given in last year's Report showed an excess of 400 over the figures shown above, due to an error in the preliminary Census report which was subsequently

corrected,

The decrease in the number of Europeans and Whites is due to the fact that when the Census was taken there were two British regiments in the Colony and a number of ships of the China Squadron were in the Harbour. The figures for 1907 give the estimated average number of inhabitants of the Colony.

The small decrease in the number of East Indians is similarly due to a reduction in the number of the Indian troops resident in the Colony.