Annual departmental report by the Director of Medical and Health Services / Hong Kong.

  • Hong Kong. Medical Department
Date:
[1950]
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Credit: Annual departmental report by the Director of Medical and Health Services / Hong Kong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    47. Once again the infants under one year provided almost exactly one third of the total deaths occurring in the Colony during the year. 48. There was a higher death rate among female infants, the figure being 104.7, than among male infants where the rate was 94.5. On the other hand there were 28,583 males born as compared with 26,236 females. 49. In Annexure E are graphs showing the number of births each month for the years 1947, 1948 and 1949. From this it will be seen that there is a definite seasonal incidence, the number of births falling each year around about the Chinese New Year that is the February-March period and rising to a peak in the Autumn. 50. Table 5 shows the infant and neo-nata] deaths and also the neo-natal death rate per thousand live births for the years 1946 to 1949. TABLE 5. Neo-natal Mortality rate. Age period 1946 1947 1948 1949 0-1 day . 174 273 221 219 1-7 days .. 264 376 467 454 1-4 weeks . 563 814 745 936 4 weeks-3 months . 771 981 900 1136 3-6 months . 462 750 665 925 6-9 months . 367 731 775 986 9-12 months . 169 421 551 788 Total under 1 year ..... 2770 4346 4324 5444 Infant Mortality rate.. 89.1 102.3 91.1 99.4 No. of deaths under four weeks . Neo-natal Mortality 1001 1463 1433 1609 rate . 32.2 34.4 30.2 29.4 51. There has been a further drop in the neo-natal mor¬ tality rate to 29.4 which is the lowest recorded since the war. Pre-war figures are not available.