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the infants during the first year of life, advising the mothers as to the manner of feeling, etc. Fifteen of these infants have been taken out of the Colony while two have been placed in the Convents. Of the remainder, twenty-two were either still-born or died immediately after birth, and twenty-five others have died from convulsions and other infantile ailments, while one was overlaid and one was a twin which was weakly from birth; the remainder are alive and well. Two only of the mothers have died, one from Bright's Disease and the other from Phthisis. These midwives consult Dr. SIBREE in all complications, and she was called to 28 of the above cases.

Scarlet Fever.

Scarlet Fever is practically unknown in this Colony, but one else was raportel in January, the patient being a young European girl of 18 years, who hat live in the Colony all her life and was employed as a type-writer, she recovered.

INTERMENTS.

The following number of interments in the various cemeteries of the Colony have been. recorded during the year :-

Non-Chinese Cemeteries.-Colonial Cemetery,

Roman Catholic Cemetery,

Mahommedan Cemetery,

Jewish Cemetery,

Parsee Cemetery,

133

1,018

57

0

1,210

Chinese Cemeteries.-Mount Caroline Cemetery,

528

Kai Lung Wan

194

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Tung Wa Hospital

2,716

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Infectious Diseases

"

Cheung Sha Wan,

507

JJ

17

11

Kennedy Town,

4

Protestant

Shaukiwan

Aberdeen

Stanley

Shek O

43

307

191

15

26

""

A

Ma Tau Wai

941

:12

Shai Yu Shek

221

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Sham Shui Po

218

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Christian

""

Kowloon City

22

Eurasian

2

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Chung Ling Tin

39

5,930