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THE HONGKONG 'GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 1ST DECEMBER, 1894.
HEALTH OF THE COLONY,
Table XVI shews the rate of mortality among the foreign residents in Hongkong for the past ten years. There is again a rise in the percentage of deaths, it being 2.22 as compared with 1.79 in 1892, and 1.36 in 1891. But it compares favourably with the preceding seven years. Still the slow but steady rise in the past three years must be looked upon with suspicion.
The following two tables shew the number of deaths among the European and Chinese cominun- ities from diseases that may be attributed to filth.
DEATHS AMONG EUROPEANS (BRITISH AND FOREIGN).
FEVERS.
VOMITING
YEARS.
DIARRHEA. CHOLERA.
AND
TOTAL.
PURGING.
Enteric.
Simple Continued.
Typhus,
1878,
1874,
1875,
34 10 3
6
2
17
4
17
18
14
778-
25
26
1876,
1877,
8
10
1878,
3
15
9
1879,
21
14
1880,
12
10
1881,
2
17
10
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24
24
27
29
38
24
29
1882,
10
13
13
37
1883,
1
9
19
1884,
7
12
23
1885,
7
19
46
1886,
5
18
1887,
7
10
25
1888,
16
25
50
1889,
2
10
1890,
4
4
15
1891,
1892,
1
6
1893,
5
11
12679
Choleraic Diarrhoea 1.
DEATHS AMONG CHINESE.
FEVERS.
VOMITING
YEARS.
DIARRHEA. CHOLERA. AND
TOTAL.
PURGING.
Enteric.
Simple Continued.
Typhus.
1873,
12
96
16
195
319
1874,
125
46
231
402
1875,
31
291
288
612
1876,
94
343
259
696
1877,
145
370
8
311
834
1878,
89
481
33
701
1,304
1879,
116
733
21
608
1,478
1880,
309
373
348
1,030
1881,
438
168
38
1882,
679
71
1883,
262
571
132
600
1884,
1885,
105
755
1886,
772
1887,
441
299
1888,
363
1889,
342
~ ~ No: 8:
435
1,079
465
1,215
660
1,496
301
1,035
561
176
1,604
10
326
19
1,136
25
276
13
764
361
236
917
180
551
216
1
562
1890,
427
329
9
771
1891,
446
231
1892, 1893,
448
294
::
677
742