612 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 26TH JUNE, 1886-
Enclosure 1.
Report from the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital.
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,
HONGKONG, 21st March, 1
SIR, I have the honour to forward Statistical tables for 1885, with a report on the the Hospital during the past year.
2. I was absent for five months on sick leave, which will account for sundry deficieles report.
3. Surgeon J. R. DonD of the Army Medical Staff was in charge of the Hospital fro28 to 31st July, when he was ordered home. Dr. PIKE, A.M.S. then took charge, and ven Dr went on leave, September 20th, Dr. THOMPSON, A.M.S. relieved him.
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4. All three surgeons found that they required regular assistance in carrying othe duties, and Dr. MARQUES was good enough to share the work with them.
5. The Colony was fortunate in obtaining the services of the Army Surgeons.
6. It is evident, however, that the Colonial Medical Staff is insufficient, since outside
be sought whenever one of the Colonial Surgeons falls sick.
7. It has happened before now that the Navy and Army were shorthanded when applied assistance, and no private practitioner was available to stop a gap in the Civil service, and thi easily happen again.
8. The policy of trusting to chance for the maintenance of the Medical Staff is unsatisfact many ways, and it is by no means economical.
9. It is well known in the Audit Office that the Hospital expenses are considerably when the Establishment is temporarily placed in charge of a medical officer unconnected service, and it is probable that the Colony would actually save money by placing a second officer permanently on the Hospital Staff.
10. This is altogether apart from the question of the efficiency of the Hospital service, consideration whether the Establishment » doing the maximum of good in the Colony,
minimtīna.
11. At present its usefulness is very much restricted, because there is only one medical do all the work, and with the best intentions one man cannot possibly accomplish all the work of a Colony like Hongkong.
12. Governor HENNESSY understood this, and appointed a second surgeon to the Hospital in but in 1883 Governor BowEN removed him, and since then the patients have had to be conter v what I could do for them unaided.
13. If I happen to be out when an urgent case is brought to the Hospital, Dr. Ar MARQUES. is sent for, and if neither can be found, the sick man must take his chance.
14. To give an idea of the position occupied in the Colony by the Civil Hospital I may n the different classes of patients received.
1. Police: Europeans, Indians and Chinese: and police servants.
1a. Civil Servants and their families.
2. Officers and seamen of all nationalities from the Merchant shipping.
3. Officers and seamen from foreign Ships of War.
4. Employés, mostly European, of the Chinese Customs and Revenue services.
5. Private Residents in Hongkong, and visitors passing through.
6. Destitute sick of all nationalities.
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Police cases: assaults, accidents and poisonings, &c.
8. Parturient women (Chinese.)
15. The Police Force consists of 614 men: 111 Europeans, 178 Indians, and 325 Chine.
of them with wives and families): and there are 52 station servants.
16. The Crews of the Chinese Junks which entered the Port in 1884 numbered 290,84
those of other vessels, British and foreign 140,583.
17. The Chinese passengers brought into the Port numbered 649,231: the Europea and col passengers are not recorded.