794 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 9TH JULY, 1887.
GOVERNMENT LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The number admitted to this Institution was sixteen the same as last year, three of them were females.
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Table XId gives the nationality, disease and description of patients, with the number of days detention in the Asylum.
There has been considerable difficulty in sending them away to their native countries, even when they are quite harmless in good health, and requiring very little attention.
TUNG WA HOSPITAL.
The total number of patients treated in this Hospital, which is entirely under the management of the Chinese was 2,048, of these 1,109 died, and 216 of those that died were admitted in a moribund condition.
The number of out-patients treated was 122,292.
The number of patients admitted to the Small Pox wards was fifty-four, of these forty-two died. The cases are mostly of the worst type, unvaccinated, and the majority children.
The number of successful vaccination performed was 2,206.
TEMPORARY LOCK HOSPITAL,
The arrangements as regards this Hospital remain the same as in my previous reports.
Table XVa gives the number of admissions for the past 29 years, and the average number of days detention for each year. In 1858, the averag
C
umber of days detention was 43.8, in 1886 it was
12.2 showing a considerable difference in → ype of disease treated.
Table XVe shows the admissions admissions to the Military Hospital e' not belong to Hongkong. The N. the cases belong to Hongkong. TL and the Civil Hospital a very large decrease.
en to the different Hospitals for venereal disease. The an enormous increase, but a large number of these cases do Hospital also shews a considerable increase, but only a few of Police Hospital shews a steady decrease for the last four years,
Table XVe 2 shews the amount of constitutional venereal disease admitted to the Naval Hospital, `of this number 20, only 2 cases belong to Hongkong.
Table XVe 3 shews the amount of constitutional venereal disease admitted to the Military Hospital, which is 71 cases, of these 40 cases were not contracted in Hongkong.
The Naval Police and Civil Hospital record of constitutional disease contracted in Hongkong is very moderate. The Military are the chief sufferers. How and where they get it is the problemf; it certainly cannot come from the registered women unless it is conceded that they can give to others what they have not got themselves.
HEALTH OF THE COLONY.
Table XVI shews the rate of mortality amongst the European and American residents in Hong- kong for the past ten years.
The number and percentage are the highest that have ever been recorded even in the preceeding year when so many were recorded from Cholera, of which there were no cases in 1886.
I give below the Tables of the death rates for the past fourteen years I have been in the Colony among the Europeans and Chinese, as registered in Hongkong, from diseases which may arise from filth poison.
DEATHS AMONG EUROPEANS (BRITISH AND FOReign.)
1873,
1874,
1875,
1876,
1877,
1878,
1879,
FEVERS.
VOMITING
YEARS.
DIARRHEA. CHOLERA.
Enteric.
Simple Continued. Typhus.
AND PURGING.
TOTAL.
2
17
25
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1
4
17
26
18
24
14
24
8
10
27
15
9
29
21
14
38
12
10
24
17
10
29
13
13
37
9
19
12
23
11
19
46
18
1880,
1881,
1882,
10
1883,
1884,
1885,
1886,