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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JANUARY, 1888
The next table shows the Hospital admissions and Rain-fall for each month of the last three years:-
1835.
1886.
1887.
Month.
Tung-
Civil. Total.
wa.
Rain- Tung-
fall.
Civil. Total.
wa.
Rain- fall.
Tung-
Civ I. Total.
Rain-
wa.
fall.
January,
5
0.87
1
2.01
1
9.00
February,
11
2.70
7
8
1.53
6
13
1.54
March,
14
17
2.47
17
18
2.59
22
23-
2.73
April,
11
11
14.89
10
3
13
5.68
35
39
5.64
May,.
4.86
3.56
33
36
2.04
June,
31.36
3
3
8.87
26
4
July,
:
August,
September,
October.
November,
:
:
30
5.47
13.64
1
1
28.32
12
12
12.07
28.11
8.95
4
13.19
5.50
2
2.99
4
11.08
2.51
:
2.81
1.86
:
0.76
:
:
0.05
28
10
38
0.79
1.25
Ι
1.77
143
28
171
0.85
December,
Annual Total,
39
14
53
108.92
54
65
69.13 315
59 374
66.26
From the observations made at Stone Cutters Island the Rain-fall in 1885 was 15.36 in excess of the mean of 8 years, and in 1886 it was 22.77 below the mean of 9 years' Rain-fall. In 1887 it was 19.23 inches below the mean of ten years'
Rain-fall.
The third table gives for the first three weeks of January, 1888, the number of Hospital Admissions, Cases notified, and Deaths registered.
January, 1888.
Hospital Admissions.
No. of week.
Tung-wa.
Government Civil.
Cases notified.
Total.
Deaths registered.
1st...
58
10
68
99
78
2nd,
57
12
69
110
68
3rd,
79
27
106
152
81
Total,..
194
49
243
361
227
Of the 361 notified during the three weeks ending January 21st, 51 were of Portuguese and 51 of other European nationalities. There were no deaths from Small-pox registered during correspon- ding periods of 1887.
January 24th, 1888.
WM. EDWARd Crow.