§ 19. Mr. GRAHAM WHITEasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, seeing that some official information is available with regard to 1,724 out of 1,851 dead bodies of children of three years of age and less picked up in the streets of Hong Kong during 1928, he will call for a report upon the remaining 127 dead bodies; and whether in any case death was due to violence?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Dr. Drummond Shiels)Of the 127 bodies, 98 were those of children over three years of age and 29 were infants of unknown sex. The Governor was requested by my Noble Friend to state whether in any of the 1,851 cases reported for the year 1929 death was due to violence, and he has replied that in no case was there found to be any evidence of violence. In 521 cases of children of three years or under, the cause of death was found to be smallpox.