The Straits Settlements medical report.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: The Straits Settlements medical report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * \ 4 7 r a Q r ‘ f / *y D cJ i p. jr; 28 DLl ’Jd STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. The Straits Settlements Medical Report for the Year 1907. I. Population and Health.—The following table shows the estimated population and the birth and death-rates for the years 1906 and 1907. Settlement. Estimated mean Population. Births. Deaths. Birth Ratio per mille. Death Ratio per mille. 1906 1907 1906 1907 1906 1907 1906 1907 1906 1907 Singapore 258,423 264,650 5,755 5,774 10,247 12,341 2227 2182 39-65 46-63 Penang I3E9I7 132,483 2,215 2,310 5,5i6 4,787 1679 I7-43 41-81 36-13 Dindings 4,411 4,471 149 148 152 240 33-78 33'19 34-46 53-83 Province Wellesley 119,652 120,430 3,707 3,747 3,610 3,i°9 30-98 3111 30-17 25-81 Malacca 97,387 97,762 3,608 4,202 3,615 3,743 37-o5 42-98 37-12 38-28 Total ... 611,790 619,796 f i5,434 l6,l8l 23,140 24,220 25-23 26-11 3782 3907 2. The largest increase in births was in Malacca and that for deaths in the Dindings. 3. The death-rate for the Colony was 39-07 against 37-82 in the previous year. There has been a marked increase in deaths in Singapore under the heading fever. 4. Of the number of deaths registered in 1907, 4,339 were amongst infants of under one year of age, which represents 17-91 per cent of the total deaths, against a total of 4,195 for 1906 and 4,671 for 1905. The ratio per mille for 1907, after % excluding the births of children born elsewhere than in the Colony, was 250-91 per cent against 255-02 per cent in 1906. t > < ■