1935-08-30 — Page 3

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST.

30, 1935.

BIG DEATH RATE "DUCE, WHEN WILL THE

IN HONGKONG

TERRIBLE MORTALITY OF CHINESE INFANTS

Only One In Three Live

If you are a European resident of Hongkong, you have a better chance of seeing old age than any other per- son in any part of the Far East. But a Chinese infant has less than one chance in three.

popilation, however, we strike a

A Terrible Feature

Infant mortality amongst forrible pieture, European children under one year of age also compares! favourably with Britain, Germany, Belgium, Den-1 mark, Scotland, North Ires land, Austria, Bulgaria and others.

This interesting information: is gleaned from the Annual Re. part of the Director of Medical Services, and from statisties

compiled by the Leage of Nations.

Nowhere in the world in the Infant mortality higher, with the possible exception of China pro. per, for which authentic statis. ties are unavailable. A total of 19,516 Chinese deaths were re- gistered in Hongkong last year, and of these 7,094 were bables!

Last year, over a third of the Chinese children born in Hongkong died before they reached the age of CIT ፕ ” “ 4 1” . The Infant mortality

for

every thousand

was-347.4

children.

In 1032

This WAM exceeded OF every thousand

non when, of every thousand children Chinese children born in Hong-born, 526.28 failed to survive the kong. 49.78 die before they first twelve monthst reach the age of twelve months. According to statistics supplied by the League of Nations, there is

This figure compares favour; no nation in the world with an in- ably with almost every country in the world. Only New Zen- land (31 deaths per thousand). Australin (41), Netherlands (18) and Teeland (19) bonsted. better infant mortality figures land year.

fant mortality rate as high as this.

Latest available

Agures show

that the death rate of infants

under one year old per thousand is

s follows in other countries;

United Kingdom

England and Wales

United States

France

Ireland

Austria

Germany

Bulgaria Hungary

The next highest mortality rate is at Malta, where 307 chii- dren out of every thousand die during their first year. Chile

Is third, with a mortality rate) of 235 mille.

With the exemption of China, for which no figures are available, the figures for the Far East: following are the infant mortality

Japan

Hongkong

GM

Straits Settlements

63

Philippines

63

Ceylon

76

F. M. States

71

103

143

151

ING

Adult Eurqeans also have a bet ter chance of survival here than in many other nations.

347.31 per mille.

High Death Rate

166

165

158

139

132

The death rate among the Chinese in Hongkong is also the highest for Asia. with the exception of the Straits Settlements, Cylon and possibly China.

2

• The figures showing the number of deaths per thousand of popala.

Straits Settlements Ceylon

Junglong

Philippines

The death rate por thousand oftion) are as follows: non-Chinese residents in Hongkon last year was 16.2 us compared with the Australian death rate of 8.7 per thousand and the New Zealand rate of 8 per thousand, these two nations being the healthiest in the world. The death rate among the Hong- kung European population is lower. than in Bulgaria 1633 Spain (163) and Portugað 417.62.

When

we turn to the Chinese

F.M.S. Japan Cyprais

23.2

22.1

21.13

20.

17.76 17.1

Of non-Asian countries, the only thes with a higher mortality rate than Hongking are Egypt, Chile, anut Porto Ries,

DUMB BELLES LETTRES NOW IN BOOK FORM

CANNON TALK?"

Patriotic and martial demonstratious in Rome: Fascists

in the Pinzza Colonna with placards inscribed “Pace, when will the 'common talk?" And wmdar sentimenta,

WIDOWED

!

Million Population For Centenary

HONGKONG WILL SOON BECOME SEVEN FIGURE CITY

IT will take Hongkong less than its first century of ex. istence to reach a population exceeding a million.

Official estimates place Hong- kong's population at the end of 1984 at 944, 492.

At the end of the current year it will exceed 960,000, and at the end of next year will be within ten thousand of the mil- lion mark.

Of the estimated civilian popula- tion of 944,492 at the end of last year, 923,684, or over 97 per cent. was Chinese, while 20,908, or 2.21 per cent., was non-Chinese.

Slightly over 4,000 Europeans and Americans reside in the Urbán area of Hongkong."

Kowloon proves a more popular residential area. 4,702 Europeans. and Americans residing on the mainland. Of other non-Chinese races, 701 reside in the Urban Bren of Victorin, 115 reside vilinges on the island and 5,858 reside on the mainland,

The majority of Hongkong's | Chinese population resides on the island, 378,199 making their homes. in the Urban area and 47.059 re- siding in the villages. On the father hand, 300,550 Chinese live in Kowloon und New Kowloon, while an additional 102,776 reside in the New Territories.

Only 26 Europeuns and Ameri- cans are listed as living in the Now Territories.

During 1934 three times the total number of people residing in Hong- kong arrived and departed by river steamer or railway, 2,789,039 ar- riving and 2,811,100 departing.

Ex-Munition Girl

Girl Fights

War Office For 16 Years

MISS MAUREEN ANNE MACMATION has the fight-

ing Irish spirit. She has been fighting the War Office for what she calls "simple justice” for sixteen years.

She will fight on, she says, until

abe gets redress for sufferings which, she declares, were the re- sult of her was nerviers,

When the call for munition workers came, she left her job as a clerk in work in a Biling factory at Hayes, Middlesex. Later she was transferred to other factories and I was made an inspector.

MRS. DEREK WEBBER

"AH 1 want now is to forget. an leaving for Scotland." The widow of 1. Webber, formerly of Hongkong, who aiked that she had known Derek

for

SPUUN years. "Both our parents knew

1 marriage. It was all above hoard! and no secret, It was not a run-

Her health, she declares, was undermined by T.N.T. poisoning. Both hands were injured by ex- plosions; the sight of one eye was damnged by an injury in an als raid.

All her representations for con

have pensation

beca rejected. Members of Parliament have in-

Miss Juliet Lowell has one of the most joyous hobbies in the world-she collects unconsciously "crazy" letters. For away marriage, as has been sug-erceded for her in vain.

some time they were published in the Hongkong Telegraph,¦gested.” Here are a few taken from a hook she has just published,

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Judge Ben Lindsey, Denver, my hat backwards breause the THERE'S WOLFRAM front part back makes the back

Colorado.

Dear Judge Lindady.-Will Tront more becominger. Is it a you tell me where I can get a mistake? -Belin P...

Compassionate marriage and what it will cost, and also like to know where I would get a com- passionate girl.

Sincerely yours, Thomas Y

Unsuitable

Sava Cola, Ladies Tailor. New York.

Dear Sir,--My boy friend thinks he likes tailored suits. Bui may- be if he sees me in one he'll think of me as his pal, and I don't want The should think of me that way.

-Eliza J

yet. My business is so bad now .can't pay.

IN THEM HILLS

IN HONGKONG

A. J. Child & Sons, St. Louis. Gentlemen, --Would you kindly MINERS MAKE MONEY ship at once a half-dozen extra beavy oak chairs as you shipped three years ago last September.

terribly handy in a fight.-C. D.

This is a mighty good rhair, and

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To Hongkong and Her People

Before leaving Hongkong to-morrow for Japan I beg to express my hearty thanks to the public of Hongkong for the wild and warm reception they accorded to me and my Company...I thank alto the Authorities, the Press and the Management of the King's Theatre who give me the possibility to present my show in Hongkang. Wherever I go around the world. I shall always remember and talk about this country and her sympathic people.

Prof. C. W: Doorlay.

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If you miss it-you'll miss a great chance

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*Miss Maureen Anne Marmahun

says she will fight ou.

She claims that certificates ARE which would have established

YOU SURE?

her claim were sent by a factory |

Another set of "brain teasers". superintendent to the wrong The answers are on Page 12,

correct. "Hong 1. Which is department and have since

Or Kong", "Hongkong", Hong- vanished. She has tried in vain kong

to trace then.

Now she is poor.

2-What English Queen had the most children?

3.--Hongkong people, advertis- She lives in a tiny, back roaming their departure fram the Colony, place the three letters "P.P.C" on the bottom left-hand She looks Ili and weak. She corner

of their visiting cards. Inherited £700 from her mother, | What do they mean?

ALTHOUGH there is no gold near Victoria Station.

in them thar hills in the

New Territories there is wol- from.

It has all gont. She said she} 4-Place the following in their Last year there was a

had spent more thnu £300 In right order: re- crudescence of mining enterprise

doctors' hills.

in Hongkong, and, because of the

Tears streamed down her drawn

I am just as good-looking is monopoly extablished in China, checks as she told how she had other girls and I dress well, and it chief

I

source of the world's tramped the streets in bedroom

reason I would like to know very fram ore.

hndi

in night watchmen's

(a) Common-

wealth of the Union of

(a) Canada

(b) New Guinea

Dominion of (c) South Africa (d) Mandated (d) Australin

Territory of

Tersitive d

5.—If a letter was addressed front, say, Canadhi to John Smith, China, where would it be sent by the postal authorities ? .

Weaver Piano Company. Gentlemen, -1 got a cross letter makes me feel bad to have to set supply, it became possible to slippers for weeks, until her feet from you wanting my piano on my seat. because I have not paid my but So if you could tell me the profitably work deposits of wol-wore bilstored, how she

sheltered boxes.

G. What ruling King succeeded The War Office says:

his own son as ruler of his coun- "Miss MacMahon's claims have try? received full consideration, and, 7-Is Newfoundland a part of after reference to the Treasury the Dominion of Canada? "During 1934 'privatears' in Medical Referee In

8.-What native-born American accordance

was three times Lord Chancellor

Surely you wouldn't take this plano, which is the only one I have,

well. Ella F

R

督

Tropical Paint &

Oil

Co..

Mining permits are issued by the Hongkong Government, but many fossickers work illicitly,

Dear Sira & Gentlemen,-Oh! I think your paint is lovely.. This

་

Resisted The Police

when you have so many pianos Cleveland, Ohio,

there at the factory-Sam D.

•

Full Stop

and I lost my dear husband when he fell off the house roof.

from

The Hawaiian Electric Company-week I painted my fence green, my Dear SO & SO.-Hear is John porch in yellow and red, and the remote plices occasioned the Police with the Government scheme for of England? Kanuki Telling you about the light, house is bright blue. She no work. John Kanuki.

and District Office staff some an I am a widow lady of forty-five, xiety to keep in check na they compensation contracting out of 9. To travel · overland

were disposed to resist If surround the Workmen's Compensation Act. Canton to Rangoon, through which ed." says the Annual Report for 1906, the decision was reached of these countries must a traveller the New Territories.

that any disability from which pa?

Siam

*Sumatra were two murders, arising, it is not resulted from an Injury by "In the case of one mine there MIss MacMahon has suffered has

auspected, out of a quarrel over accident within the meaning of the the proceeds."

Letter received by an Editor, How long should a novel be? (Answer.)

Now I am going to be mai ried again to the man next door.

There is no atatutory require- We were nakhbours for years, mont, but 85,000 words is a good but he paid no attention to me average length for a short popular until he saw my house painted so novel:~~~~

pretty and my new furniture.

(Wired reply to the Editor) THANK HEAVEN I'M FINISHED

He came in to talk about it, and we got real well acquainted, and now we're getting married, and it's all on account of your lovely paint.

Mme. Ara, Hata, 57th-street. Dear Mmo,,-I wear the front of¡—Amella T-

Act.

F. M. States Formosa French Indo Borneo

China

10.--Which was the first British Miners, also came into conflict with villagers over the pollution of

Colony to receive full Dominion "Compensation could not, there-status? water courses and drinking-water, fore, be awarded to her and no

11-What is Lewis with Harris? cutting of trees, and damage to reason has been since found for hymn "Onward Christian Sol- 12. Who wrote the words of the

changing this docialon.”

diera"?

crops.

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