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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD MARCH, 1872.
2.-TABLE shewing the RATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY in the POLICE FORCE, during the Year 1871.
AVERAGE STRENGTH.
TOTAL SICK.
TOTAL DEATHS.
RATE OF SICKNESS.
RATE OF MORTALITY.
Europeans.
Colored.
Chinese.
Total.
101
299
236
636
518
9
81.44
3.-TABLE shewing the RATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY of the TROOPS serving in HONGKONG, during the Year 1871.
1.41
AVERAGE STRENGTH.
ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL.
DEATHS.
RATE OF SICKNESS.
RATE OF MORTALITY.
White. Black. Total.
511 983 1,494
White. Black. Total.
754 1,176 1,930
White. Black. Total.
4
7
11
129.6
per cent.
.09
per cent.
4.-TABLE shewing the NUMBER of PATIENTS treated, and the MORTALITY, in the GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL during the Year 1871.
1871.
ADMISSIONS.
DEATHS.
ADMISSIONS.
1871.
DEATHIS.
DISEASES.
Europeans.
Colored Persons.
Chinese.
Total,
Europeans.
Colored Persons.
Chinese.
DISEASES.
Total.
Europeans.
Colored Persons.
Chinese.
Total.
Small Pox,
36
Intermittent Fever,.
41
ان
11
Remittent do..
4 11 2
Continued
do.,
1
3113
22 6 64 2
1
6
Brought forward,.
837 295 113
745
15
11
103
Orchitis,
7
1
17
Hydrocele,
4
Periostitis,
Erysipelas,
2 2
4
Caries,†
Rheumatism,
25 24 9
58
Necrosis,†
Lumbago,
2 1
3
Synovitis,..
Primary Syphilis,
18 21
7
46
Tumour,
Secondary do.,
12 1
2
Tertiary
do.,
4
Frost-bite,* Boils,
Phthisis,
4
Abscess,
Paralysis,
1
Üleer,
aomi mi pi
1
Tetanus Idiopathic,.
Warts,
+2
1
1
2
1
5
12
1
Hydrophobia,
1
Leprosy,
6
Neuralgia,
Insanity,
10
Compression of Brain,.
3
Delirium Tremens,
10
10
Ophthalmia,
2
5
Corneitis,
1
Wound of Cornea,
Blindness,.
1
Gangrene, Urticaria, Eczema, Ringworm,
Favus, Scabies, Acne, Lupus,
2
1
3
Constipation,
Hæmorrhoids, External,.
Do., Internal,
Hepatitis,.
Abscess of Liver,
Ieterns,
Splenitis,
Fistula in Ano,
Fissure of Rectum,
Epistaxis,
Ottorrhoea,
Palpitation of Heart,
Fattydegeneration do.,
Opium Poisoning,
Aneurisin of Aorta,.
Dropsy,
Bnbo..
3
Tonsilitis,.
13
Asthma,
Influenza,
3
10
Bronchitis,
4 13
18
Pneumonia,
3
5
Man do.,
Pleuro-Pneumonia,
2
4
Pleurisy,
1
1
Gun Shot
Dog Bite,.
Fracture of Skull,
Do. Lower Jaw,
Floemoptysis,
1
1
Do.
Nose,
Dyspepsia,
12
4
16
Do.
Ribs,
Dysentery,
13 4
18
Do.
Clavicle,
Diarrhoea,
13 27 23
63
21
Do.
Scapula,
Colic,
4 18
22
Do.
Arm,
16 2
18
Do.
Femur,
1
1
Do. Patella,
Compd. Fracture of Elbow. (Excision,)‡ 1
Elephantiasis,
Debility,
Mercurial Salivation,.
Do. Eating,
2
Contused Wounds,..... Incised
12
10
26
48
do.,
3 7 19
29
Lacerated do.,
4
4
Punctured
do.,
4 10
14
do.,
4
5
2
18
3
1.
Do.
Do.
Tibia & Fibula,
Femur,
2
Sprains,
2
Contusions,
33
Burns,
10
Submersion in Sea....
Hernia,
Bright's Disease,.
Hæmaturia,
Gonorrhoea,
Stricture of Urethra.
Starvation,
2
2
Exposure,
I
1
Destitution,
4
5
68 41
16 125
Drunkenness,
20
2
23
2
Impostors,
1
1
Do. of Spasmodic,
1
Observation,
5 9 4
18
Phymosis,.
1
Paraphymosis,
1
1
No Appreciable Disease, Moribund,
1
7 11
19
2 14
16
2 14 16
Carried forward,..
387 295 113 745
15 11
21
47
TOTAL,...
452 402 811 |1,165 19 16 42 77
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21
47
Frost-bite of both legs-amputated.
+ Caries of bones of foot-long standing.
51
-after gun-shot wound received ip Piratical attack-Syme's amputation in both cases. Excision of Elbow joint, the result was a useful arm.