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If after a year's trial it is found that the services of the Licentiates are appreciated and that they have more work to do than they can overtake, the advisability of extending the scheme and increasing the staff on the lines recommended by the Colonial Surgeon might be then considered.
Enclosure I.
Total Chinese deaths, 1891, Victoria,
23
Certificates,....
..4,075
....
.1,499 or 36.78 per cent.
.....2,576 or 63.21 per cent.
Without Certificates,
of which 1,251 or 30.70 per cent. were deaths in the French and Italian Convents.
Certificates from European Doctors including Government Civil Hospital
and Alice Memorial Hospital,....
Magistrates Inquiry Notes,
??
Burial Orders,
Certificates from Tung Wa Hospital,..
"J
"
other Chinese Doctors,
.....
Enclosure II.
ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL STATISTICS.
OUT PATIENTS.
New Cases.
IN PATIENTS.
New Cases,
1887,
...7,685
533
1888,
.7,090
544
1889,
..6,726
569
1890,
.........8,356
771
1891,
.8,929
848
46
36
229
1,173
15
1,499