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distributed to farmers as fertiliser, the greater part is dumped at sea. A scheme is, however, in course of preparation which visages the introduction of a double pail system for the removal of human wastes. This entails the replacement of used pans in pre- mises by clean sterilised pails, and the treatment of human wastes in maturation tanks for ultimate use as fertiliser on the farms and market gardens in the New Territories.
APPENDIX I
VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1948.
A. BIRTHS.
Records for births are incomplete owing to the hostilities in December, 1941, and the subsequent lack of interest in birth registration manifested by the Japanese during the period 1942- 1945 (August).
Year.
1940...
Births 45,064
1941...
45,000 (est.)
1942...
10,343
1943...
20,732
1944...
13,687
1945..
3,712 (to 31st August only)
1946...
31,098
1947...
42,473
1948...
47,475
B. DEATHS
While death registration was equally unsatisfactory throughout the occupation and many thousands of bodies. never received burial in recognized cemeteries, such records as are available are given in the following table with those for 1940, 1941, and 1946-1948.
Year.
Deaths
1940...
61,010
1941..
61,324
1942...
83,435
1943...
40,117
1944...
24,936
1945..
23,098 (to 31st August)
1946...
16,653
1947...
13,231
1948..
13,434
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