The Straits Settlements medical report.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department.
Date:
[1904]
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Credit: The Straits Settlements medical report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Straits Settlements Medical Report for the Year 1904. Population and Health. I. The following table shews the estimated population and the birth and death- rates for the years 1903 and 1904 for the several Settlements. Settlement. Estimated mean Population. Births. Deaths. Birth Ratio per mille. Death Ratio per mille. 1903 1904 1903 1904 1903 1904 1903 1904 1903 1904 Singapore 240.833 246,495 5.089 5,435 n,5o5 io,937 21-13 2205 4777 44'37 Penang 130,121 130,602 2,495 2,493 4,988 5,517 I9’I7 19-08 38-33 42-24 Dindings 4.236 4.294 136 158 137 128 3210 36-79 32-34 29-80 Province Wellesley 117,078 117,762 3,8X3 3,778 3,279 3,392 32-57 32-08 28-01 2880 Malacca 96,276 96,629 3)976 3.380 3,332 3,259 41-30 3497 34-61 3373 Total ... 588,544 595.7^2 I5,5°9 15,244 23,241 23,233 26-35 25-59 3949 39 2. The death-rate for the whole of the Colony was 39 in 1904 as against 39'49 in 1903 and 42*96 in 1902, and judging from this there seems to have been an improvement in the public health of the Colony in 1904 over the two previous years. From the above table it will be seen that there vva^ a considerable reduction in the number of births in Malacca in 1904 as compared with 1903. Singapore, however, shews an increase in ihe birth-rate and an appreciable reduction in the death-rate, a result which was also obtained in 1903 as compared with 1902. 3. Of the total number of deaths registered in 1904, 3)841 were among infants of under one year old, against 3,865 in 1903 and 3.631 in 1902. Of the total deaths registered in Singapore in 1904, 284 were among persons who had resided less than one month in the Settlement. 4. The following table gives the number of cases of Zymotic Diseases in the several Settlements in the years 1903 and 1904, and deaths therefrom, not including cases imported into the Colony. Plague. Cholera. Small-pox. 1903 1904 1903 1904 1903 1904 Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. Cases. (A r+ V a (A <V ctl a U Deaths. Cases. cA 4) Q Cases. Deaths. Singapore 3 3 20 20 226 190 3 3 109 29 33 11 Penang ... ... | ... ... 227 57 3 2 Province Wellesley... • • ... j ... ... ... ... 258 49 6 2 Malacca... 1 ! ... ... ... ... 266 40 100 7 Total ... 3 3 ■ 20 20 226 . 190 3 3 860 175 142 22