Friday, May 20, Foreign Births.—Forty-one foreign births were recorded including 31 residents of the International Settiement (12 females and 19 males).
Chinese Births.—Notifications Chinese births. totalled 1,205, including 1190 residents of the' Inter-ational Settlement (674 females and 856 males), Foreign Deaths—Foreign deaths recorded totalled 38, a death rate of 1147 per mille, Of these deaths 42.11 per cent, were of non-Chinese Asiatics.
The major causes of death were pneumonia, tuberculosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis and diseases: of the heart, The death rate for communicable diseases was 3.02 per mille compared with 3.92 last month, Medical—Captain A.C, Maconie resigns his commission with effect from May 10, 1938, 'Omcers' Commissions—Renewal 'The undermentioned officers' commissions are renewed under Art XI of Corps Regs—
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