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Table showing death rates in the different States 
from the principal diseases. 
Malaria Dysentery Pulmonary 
State. fevers not and Tuberculosis, 
diagnosed. Diarrhoes. 
Perak 
12.46 
1.26 ' 
1.56 
Selangor 
9.48 
1.93 
1.48 
Negri Sembilan 
10.53 
1.45 
1.41 
Pahang 
11.36 
1.73 
0.58 
Death rates in the four large towns. 
Towns being centres where congregate the sick 
from all quarters it is necessary to make some dis'^ 
tinction between those who contract their disease in 
the town ?nd those who contract it outside. For 
purposes of death calculations in the Federated Malay 
States a person who has resided in a town for one 
month is considered a citizen of that town whether 
the time was' spent in a private house or in hospital. 
The qualifying period is too short and therefore the 
deaths rates shown against towns are higher than the 
true ones. In the Straits the qualifying period is three 
months. 
The following table shows the death rates from the 
principal diseases in the four large towns in 1923. 
Town 
Malaria 
death rate 
Dysentery p ulinoliarv 
Diarrhoea Tuberculosis 
deamVale ^ 
General 
death rate 
Kuala Lumpur 
2.06 
1.77 
2.91 
19.19 
Ipoh 
1.48 
1.34 
3.61 
20.12 
Seremban 
2.86 
3.18 
2.45 
24.78 
Taiping 
6.94 
2.84 
3.73 
33.45 
