Foreign Births.—93 foreign births wore recorded, including 83 residents of the International Settlement (44 males and 39 females) and the rate was 25.00 per mille. Of the 83 resident births, 71 were Japanese, Chinese Bieths.—977 Chinese births were recorded, of these, 32 were residents (383 tales and 449 females).
Foreign Deaths—There were 49 deaths among the foreign community, fof which 28 were non-Chinese Asia: tics (26 Japanese, one Filipino and tone Indian). "Dedth rate was 14.79 por mille. The major causes of death were tuberculosis, pneumonia, can: cer, diseases of digestive system and Chinese: Deaths—There were 3357 deaths recorded a5 against 4.881 January. Of this number 342 were due to communicable diseases "and 2010 were exposed corpses. Thi major known causes of death were tuberculosis, pneumonia, smallpox and bronchitis.
Communicable Diseases.—There was 'a general slight decrease in the notiations of communicable diseases when compared with January, with the exception of tuberculosis where Anta 235 cases were notified us against 153 in January. Smallpox, although stilt in epidemic form continued to decrease, 16. foreign and 115 Chinese eases being notified as against 27 and 487 respectively in January. One foreigner and 05 Chinese succumbed to the disease. Of a total of 131 eases notified, 77 gave a history of vaccination (59 of these had never been vaccinated since infancy'.
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