THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH OCTOBER, 1899. 1601
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 558.
The following Return of Cases of Bubonic Plague, which was laid before the Legislative Council on the 4th instant, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th October, 1899.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary,
RETURN OF CASES OF BUBONIC PLAGUE
Occurring in the City of Victoria, Hongkong, during the year 1899.
NOTES.
The accompanying return deals with $36 cases of Plague which were reported to the Sanitary Board during the period between the 1st January and Sth September 1899, as occurring in 681 houses in the City of Victoria, Hongkong; there were besides 582 cases which occurred in the Villages of Hongkong and in British Kowloon, or were found in the Streets of the City, on the High Roads, or in the Waters of the Colony, all of these latter being either dead or in a moribund condition when so found.
The asterisks against certain of the houses show that those houses do not satisfy the condition as to an open space of not less than 50 square feet in the rear, as proposed by the Insanitary Properties BiH dated 21.8.99 now under consideration.
The following table shows inter alia the percentage of infected houses so conditioned to the total of infected houses in each District.
1
2
3
9
10
Health Districts.
Houses. Floors.
Estimated Population.
Acreage.
Persons*
per acre.
Total Cases.
Total Infected Total | Houses that Houses have not an Infected. open area of 50
Percentages: Column 9 of Column S.
square feet.
1
459
960
8,340
531
15.70
917
2,260
22,260
267
83.37
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22
62
53
11
52.38
53
29
52.72
36
85
1,300
158
27.21
:
958
3,036
23,870
45
530.44
100
84
27
32.14
5
957
2,861
22,270
23
968.26
135
114
58
50.87
6
825
2,410
17,440
23
758.26
71
58
39
67.24
7
760
2,220
16,490
27
610.74
56
47
14
29.78
8
828
1,804
19,240
42
458.09
73
62
43
69.35
9
1,017
2,699
24,800
40
620.00
263
201
140
69.65
10
402
965
7,550
258
29.26
54
33
39
19
48.71
Total,..
7,159
19,300 166,560
1,414
117.79
836
681
380
55.80
FRANCIS W. CLARK, Medical Officer of Health.