398 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 26TH JUNE, 1886.
Table XVe shews the number of men treated for venereal disease in the Military Naval Police Civil Hospitals and the average number of men in Garrison and Port of different classes per month. Table XV shows the character of disease for nd amongst the women.
Table XVe 2 shews the number of Naval Seamen who have contracted constitutional disease ngkong, which is only one.
Table XVe shows the number of Military that have contracted constitutional disease in Hong ng which is 14.
The difference between the Naval and Military men is explained by the Seamen in most cases ng to the registered houses, whilst the Military have more opportunities of becoming acquainted with
prostitutes.
In 1884 no Naval Seamen contracted constitutional disease in Hongkong, but among the Militar re were 28 cases, which this year have been reduced to one half.
Two members of the Police Force, both Europeans, contracted constitutional syphilis. In one o e cases, however, it was contracted in the execution of his duty. The constable, a man of very od character, while defending himself in a scuffle with a number of seamen, hit one man on the bath inflicting a slight wound on his own knuckle from contact with the man's teeth. The man ack must have been suffering from syphilitic sores in the mouth, for the wound received by the table developed into a chancre and ultimately secondary symptoms of a very severe form showed mselves. The Government, I am happy to say, has compensated the Constable for his injury as lies in its power. Only one case of secondary Syphilis was received into the Civil Hospitals among the Seamen in Port. The working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, both a, ong the and women, may be considered as very satisfactory.
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HEALTH OF THE COLONY.
Table XVI shews the rate of mortality amongst the European and American Residents in Hong ng. The percentage to the number of residents for 1885, is 3.25, the highest percentage for the
ten years.
It would have been less than 2 per cent but for the deaths from cholera among
itary.
I give below the Tables of the death rates for the past thirteen years I have been in the Colony ong the Europeans and Chinese, as registered in Hongkong, from diseases which may arise from filth
DEATHS AMong EuropeANS. (BRITISH AND FOREIGN.)
1873 1874 1875. | 1876. | 1877. 1878. 1879. 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885.-
YEAR.
Enteric,
1
Simple Continued, .
Typhus,.
Diarrhoea,
6
сл
2
4
17
17
18
14
10
5
3
3
1
2
10
1
7
15
21
12
17 13
N
1
1
a
14
10
10
13
9
12
9
Cholera,.
Totals,........
:
25
:
19
25
26
24
•
24
27
29
38 24
29
37
19
23
46
YEAR.
DEATHS AMONG CHINESE.
1873. 1874. | 1875. | 1876. | 1877. ■ 1878. 1879. | 1880, 1881. 1882.¦ 1883. | 1884. | 1885.
94
Enteric,
12
125
31
145
89 116 309 438 679 262 132
105
Simple Continued,
96
16 291 343 370
16
481
33
733 373 168
71 671 600
755
3
21
38
2
Diarrhes,
195
231 288
259 311
701 608 348
435 465
660
301
561
· Cholera,.......................
:
:
:
:
7
Vomiting & Purging
176
Totals,.........
319
402 612 ! 696 1834
1,3041,4781,030 | 1,079 | 1,215 || 1496 1,035. | 1,604
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