Babies of 18 Different Nationalities Registered Last Year; Chinese Death Statistics Uncertain a periodic the ent fevers are an ever t evil and judging laboratory records have during the past few years s 2 most disquieting increase in quency, assume the first on record a domic for the late autui IHE system of birth registration is working satisfactorily in the aver on summer Settlement as far as foreign residents ar concerned and births r of positives of 18 different nationalities were recorded last year, according to recorded is three times the number the second part of the annual report of the Commissioner of Public in 1997.
Though this is
wi ut doubt due to the influx of Health issued yesterday.
A total of 416 births among foreign re-refugees it i more than directly sidents, 216 males and 200 females, was registered. 12,176 births liberal! among the Chinese residents were recorded, 5,996 males and 6,180 estimate of the Povert. females, be content w Deaths among foreigners totalled shows the hi st mortality amo minimal 631, of which number 517 were rethe notifiable discs. 87 foreign often lack sidents. A total of 55009 Chinese cases were notified, of which 75 were is the rule. deaths was recorded. 37,990 deaths of the respiratory type, causing 47 decided worsening were in respect of exposed corpses. out of 59 deaths ug Chinese conditions of the These are dumped on vacant plots 2042 cases were notified, of whole and particul of lend and are collected for disposal 1,762 were of the respirator whose envi ut even pi yy the Shanghai Public Benevolent responsible for 1204 out hostilities Cemetery. Although these deaths deaths Typhus Situation form 68.20 per cent. of the total Malai number of deaths recorded, it is imdecrease typhus fever ernie in Shanghai possible to give any analysis of the increase a causes of death. Mgny of the bodies pared with fore: ire those of beggars, indigents, with no deaths were not female infants and stillborn children. against 102 cases with no dear the populati with lice this rela!
The following summary retes t5 1937; whereas 487 Chinese the incidence of communicable the more 34 deaths were notified diseases among the resident popula-331 cases with 39 deaths in 1937. immed tion only.
Typhoid Paratyphoid Group.—T^ The Choler: disease was endemic during the early
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