309
There has been no epidemic even the influenza has only appeared in the ordinary form we have seen every year.
DEATHS AMONG EUROPEANS (BRITISH AND FOREIGN).
FEVERS.
VOMITING
YEARS.
DIARRHEA. CHOLERA. AND
TOTAL.
PURGING.
Simple
Enteric. Continued.
Typhus.
1873,
6
2
17
25
1874,
4
4
17
26
1875,
1
18
24
1876,
1
9
14
24
...
1877,
5
8
4
10
27
1878,
15
2
9
29
1879,
3
21
14
38
1880,
1
12
1
10
24
1881,
2
17
10
29
1882,
10
13
1
13
37
1883,
1
9
9
19
1884,
7
4
12
23
1885,
7
11
9
19
46
tr.
1886,
8
1887,
7
10
1888,
5
4
16
5609
18
2
25
25
30
1889,
10
1
16
The deaths from the above classes of disease for seventeen years among Foreign Residents shew a considerable diminution and is the lowest number in any of these year.
DEATHS AMONG CHINESE.
FEVERS.
VOMITING
YEARS.
DIARRHEA. CHOLERA. AND
TOTAL.
PURGING.
Enteric.
Simple Continued.
Typhus.
1873,
12
96
16
1874,
125
46
1875,
31
291
1876,
94
843
1877,
145
370
1878,
89
481
33
1879,
116
733
21
1880,
309
373
1881,
438
168
1882,
679
71
1883,
262
-571
1884,
132
600
1885,
105
755
MAN....
1886,
9
772
1887,
441
1888,
299
1889,
363
IN NO : Nä
195
319
231
402
288
612
259
696
311
834
701
1,304
608
1,478
348
1,030
435
1,079
465
1,215
660
1,496
2
301
1,035
561
176
1,604
10
326
19
ஆ.
1,136
25
276
13
764
361
17
236
917
180
7
551
Among the Chinese the deaths from the above causes are the smallest number for the last sixteen years. The diminution is most noticeable in the bowel complaints.
I regret that I have not been able to send in this report before this but a great deal of trouble has been in making up the Tables, and the clerks had to stop work while making duplicate bills for past months by Government order.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
The Honourable W. M. DEANE, C.M.G.,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
PH. B. C. AYRES, Colonial Surgeon.