SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 9TH JULY, 1887. 795
DEATHS AMONG CHINESE.
FEVERS.
VOMITING
YEARS.
Enteric.
Simple
DiarrhŒA. CHOLERA. AND
PURGING.
TOTAL.
Typhus. Continued.
1873,
1874,
125
1875,
1876,
2252
12
96
46
291
94
343
1877,
145
370
1878,
89
481
1879,
116
733
21
1880,
309
373
1881,
438
168
1882,
679
71
1883,
262
571
1884,
132
600
1885,
105
755
1886,
772
5: Now ∞ ∞ Na
16
195
319
231
402
2
288
612
259
696
311
834
33
701
1,304
608
1,478
348
1,030
38
435
1,079
465
1,215
660
1,496
2
301
1,035
561
176
1,604
10
326
19
1,136
i
The figures in the European Table total up the smallest number in the past fourteen years. In the Chinese Table only 9 cases are recorded of a Typhoid or Enteric type, whereas the largest number of deaths from simple continued fever is recorded for the past fourteen years.
The Diarrhoea cases on both Tables are moderate.
The Chinese Table is a curiosity in registration. The deaths from Enteric or Typhoid Fever vary in different years, 9 cases this year the lowest of the fourteen, and 679 in 1881, the highest number recorded; Simple Continued Fever 46 cases in 1874 the lowest number, and 772 this year the highest number recorded.
Diarrhoea 195 in 1873 the lowest number, and 701 in 1878 the highest number recorded.
I was absent on leave during the summer of 1886 for five months, the only leave I have had for 11 years. During my absence Dr. GREGORY P. JORDAN acted for me as Colonial Surgeon. He also acted as Health Officer for two months in the Spring, while Dr. ADAMS was absent on leave, and in both cases carried on the work to the satisfaction of the Government.
Dr. MARQUES suffered for some months from a serious attack of Inflammation of the Liver, and during his illness Dr. JORDAN and the Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital had to divide his work, and after my return I and Dr. THOMPSON, A.M.D. did the work for him.
In consequence of the Report and Tables of the Government Civil Hospital being sent in so late, I have been compelled to confine my report entirely to statistics.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
The Honourable F. STEWART, LL.D.,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
&c.,
&C.,
&c.
Your obedient Servant,
PH. B. C. AYRES, Colonial Surgeon.