Foreign Mortality; No Census Taken Shanghai, Mar. 13.
Settlement for the past year being 13.69 per mille against inerenso in thie mortality rates among forelmers in: the 10,20 per mille of the previous year is shown in the first part of the annual report for 1940, of the Public Health Department of the S.M.C. submitted by Dr. J. H. Jorda Commissioner of Public Health, and which has been. summarized in four parts. 'The mortality' rates, it was emphasized, yield little of value to students of disease owing to the considerable change in the composition of the population, making any attempts to draw a deduction from the increase futile, In the introduction to the frst part of the report which consists of vital Statistics and the work of the chemlcal laboratory, it was stated that the Gensity of the Chinese population was considerably lowered during the year, partly due to the further ing of Yangtszepoo and the Hongkew districts and the exodus of many Chinese to the country. Due to the abnormal conditions it was not found possible to take the census of the population which under ordinary circumstances would have taken place this year, Tt is assumed that the Chinese population is still yp to the 2,500,000" mark or perhaps much higher.
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