THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH OCTOBER, 1874.
Appendix B.
Readings of Barometer taken at Central Station, 22nd and 23rd September, 1874.
Time.
Barometer.
Time.
Barometer.
REMARKS.
573
REMARKS.
Sept. 22nd, 1874,
7.30 P.M.
29.50
1.43 A.M.
28.78
9.00
29.40
1.48
28.76
""
""
10.00
29.30
1.55
28.75
""
"}
11.30
20.20
2.03
28.73
27
Gusts heavy and frequent. Shifting to 70.
""
Sept. 23rd, 1874, Midnight.
29.15
2.15
28.77
"
0.05 A.M.
29.10
Bobbingths.
2.20
28.80
Shifting rapidly between 28.80 & 85 till 2.40 a.m.
""
12.15
29.06
2.40
28.85
""
12.25
29.02
2.45
28.90
"2
"
12.40
28.95
2.50
28.90
12.45
28.95
2.55
28.95
""
""
12.56
28.94
3.00
28.97
Gusts lighter and long
intervals.
27
">
1.03
28.91
3.05
29.00
""
"
1,07
28.90
3.10
29.05
""
"2
1.10
28.90
3.20
29.10
""
""
1.20
28.88
3.30
29.15
""
>>
1.23
28.85
3.35
29.20
""
27
1.27
28.84
3.45
29.25
Gusts heavier and conti-
nuous.
Gusts heavy but longer
intervals.
"
"
1.34
28.82
4.00
29.28
""
""
1:35
28.81
4.05
29.30
""
""
1.37
28.80
4.20
29.34
""
22
W. M. DEANE,
Captain Superintendent of Police.
Registrar General to Colonial Secretary.
With reference to your Memo. of the 28th ultimo, I beg to report, for His Excellency The Governor's information, that up to this date the number of Deaths, occasioned by the Typhoon, which have been registered, is as follows:-
CHINESE.
DROWNED.
Male Adults, Female
..419
..152
Male Children,
93
Female
27
48
712
KILLED BY FALLING HOUSES.
Male Adults,
Female
Male Children, Female
•
"1
Total Deaths,.
52
15
12
5
84
.796
I
The above refer to Chinese among whom, of course, the greatest number of Deaths occurred. may take this opportunity of reporting to His Excellency the great aid given by the Board of Direction of the Tung-Wa Hospital in the late serious emergency. The Board hired boats and engaged men through whose instrumentality as many as 193 bodies of those enumerated above were buried.
Further, they hired the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, steamer, and one of the members of the Board searched the neighbouring headlands and inlets, where they buried several other bodies of their countrymen, as well as those of two Europeans.
The energy displayed and the good work done by the Board deserves, I think, some recognition from the Government.