Shanghai, Mar. 1 system of birth registration is working satisfactorily in Settlement as far as foreign residents are concerned and births of 18 different nationalities were recorded last year, according to the second part of the annual report of the Commissioner of Public Health issued yesterday.
A total of 416 births among foreign residents, 216 males and 200 females, was registered. 12,176 births among the Chinese residents were recorded, 5,996 males and 6,180 females, Deaths among foreigners totalled notified, of which 108 were amoebic, 31, of which number 617 were re~ with 6 deaths, and 156 were bacillary dents. "A oral of $5,600 Chinese with 10 deaths. Among Chinese. 3003 cases with 1,012 deaths were deaths was recorded. 37,990 deaths recorded.
Were in respect of exposed corpses.
Relapsing Fever—7 foreign cases Those are dumped on vacant plots were notified. No deaths recorded. of land and are collected for disposal 302 cases with 62 deaths were notified by the Shanghai Public Benevolent among the Chinese.
Cemetery, "Although these deaths form 6820 percent. of the total "Epidemle Cerebrospinal Meningitis. number of deaths recorded, it is im-5 eases occurred among foreigners, Jail of which proved fatal; whereas possible to give any analysis of the among Chinese there were 533 cases causes of death. Many of the bodies fare those of beggars, indigents, with' 218 deaths, Anthrax—1 case of Anthrax female infants and stillborn children: (Chinese) was confirmed by labora-'The following summary relates 16 the incidence. "of communicable tory examination, Rxbies.—No deaths occurred among diseases among the resident population only. the foreign community. 3 deaths were Typhoid Paratyphoid Group.—This recorded among Chinese residents, all Of whom had not been treated. " In disease was endemic during the early addition there were 2 non-resident part of the year, but in May it became epidemic "and continued 30 oaths, who likewise had never received' any treatment. throughout the remainder of the Schistosomiasis. year. Among the foreign community, deaths occurred among the foreign 256 cases of typhoid fever with 47 fand Chinese residents. 1 foreign and deaths, and 44 eases of para-typhoid fever with 3 deaths were notified. 84 22 Chinese cases among non-residents, treated in Settlement Hospitals were per cent, of the total ease. Incidence notified. 9 deaths occurred among the Gf the tivo diseases occurred among.
Eastern races other than Chinese, Among the Chinese 3455 cases typhoid with 1,376 deaths were reported and 71 cases of para-typhoid with 15. deaths.
Typhus Fover—This discase was present In epidemic form from the Doginning of April. till the end of July; a few sporadic cases occurred dots. 12 foreign eases were deaths occurred. 685, nailpox.—From January 1 to the the. Inelence was among foreigners—all Japanese—all of whom succumbed, whilst 1,100 eases with 375 deaths were reported among the Chinese.
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