Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius.

  • Mauritius. Medical and Health Department.
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[1899]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOB TF3IE3 YEAB 1899. The Director, Medical and Health Department to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary. Port Louis, Mauritius, C/No. 906. 29th. March, 1900. The Honorable The Colonial Secretary. Sir, I have the honour to submit for the information of His Excellency the Governor and for transmission to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State, the Medical Report on the health and sanitary condition 9f Mauritius for the year 1899, together with the Returns, &c., appended thereto. REPORT. J.—Statistics of Population, 1899. The estimated population foF the year showed a slight in¬ crease over that of 1898. The figures are : 379,586 for 1899, 378,872 for 1898 and 377,856 for 1897. The increase in 1899 was particularly among the Indo- Creole population, whilst there was a marked falling off among the Immigrants. The birth-rate of the year was 39.4 per thousand against 36.3 in 1898 and 36.1 in 1897. The death-rate of the Colony was 37,9 per thousand against 31.9 in 1898 and 29.5 in 1897. The year under review as compared with the previous one shows therefore ; an increase in the population of 714, an improvement in the birth-rate of 3.1 per thousand and a rise in the death-rate of 6 per thousand. The rise in the death-rate is partly due to plague which broke out in this Colony in January 1899, and assumed an epidwiiQ character in the month of June following.