Annual report / Municipality of Singapore, Health Department.
- Singapore. Municipality Health Department.
- Date:
- [1927]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report / Municipality of Singapore, Health Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MORTALITY ACCORDING TO NATIONALITIES AND AGES. The following return shows the number of deaths at different age periods in the different nationalities:— Nationalities. Sex. Under 3 months. 3—12 months. 1—5 years. © rH 1 lO 10—20 20—25 25—35 35—45 45—55 r M 2 1 1 1 6 6 12 6 Europeans < F — 1 1 1 1 Eurasians M 6 6 6 3 2 1 2 8 8 F 5 4 5 1 1 3 4 4 10 Chinese \ M 734 651 512 153 270 597 1,564 1,505 1,244 F 613 533 444 151 140 155 351 289 227 M 146 141 58 20 31 47 140 79 66 xYiaiays F 110 111 68 12 33 26 77 50 49 M 43 36 32 7 42 91 249 140 96 l F 35 26 19 10 14 14 48 25 24 Others ■ M 6 9 3 1 3 4 9 7 4 l F 1 3 2 — 5 5 11 Total Males 937 843 612 j 185 j 349 746 1,970 1,751 1,424 Total Females 764 677 539 174 188 199 486 373 322 Grand Total 1,701 1,520 1,151 359 537 945 2,456 2,124 1,746 Over 55 Unknown Total 10 45 ► 56 7 — 11, 9 — 51] ► 107 19 — 56 841 42 8,113 ► 11,383 358 9 3,270 118 — 846] 1,501 119 — 655 58 3 797] 1,032 20 — 235 8 1 55] 86 4 — 31J 1,044 46 9,907] > 14,165 527 9 4,258^ 1,571 55 The six chief causes of death for the last five years were:— 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 Pneumonia 1244 1262 1481 1843 2291 Tuberculosis 1434 1276 1254 1370 1523 Convulsions 644 839 877 1114 1405 Malaria 869 848 962 1600 1287 Beri beri ..1 636 678 740 798 1078 Dysentery 514 576 605 657 699 GENERAL DEATH RATE. The death rate was 33.08 per 1000 as against 32.04 for 1926 and an average of 32.58 for the past 10 years. The Pneumonias accounted for 2291 and Tuberculosis (Phthisis 1436) for 1523 deaths as against 1843 & 1370 respectively in the year 1926. The deaths from these two causes total 3814 and constitute over 25% of the deaths from all causes. No better proof of the increasing overcrowding that prevails and its more terrible consequences could be found. Both these diseases are preventable in that they are spread by compelling people to live in close proximity to each other in insanitary, ill lit, unventilated cubicles and single rooms. Since writing my last report the Improvement Ordinance has become law and the Trust is now in being. Naturally its operation will be slow and we must have patience. But I do wish to emphasise that the overcrowding to day in Singapore is so terrible that in some cases](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31489692_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
