May,
June, July,
August,.
29
Kennedytown Hospital.
September, October,..
Total.
Plague.
Observation.
Deaths.
71.
67
4
58
121
115
6
90
39.
28
11
17
95
51
44
32
$
2
6
2
1
1
335
264
71
200
It will be noticed that in August and September the proportion of observation cases was large. It was most essential at this period that all possible foci of disease should be removed; and it must be remembered too that at this stage of the epidemic, apparent glandular swellings were seldom met with. Of the fifty-one cases of plague admitted in August only eight had visible buboes when admitted; whilst only two developed them in hospital,
June and July,
ALICE MEMORIAL BRANCHI HOSPITAL,
Total 112
Plague.
110
Observation, Deaths.
2
93
In the Glass Works and Slaughter House Hospitals under Chinese treatment the following were the numbers. These are given in a somewhat different manner, but I believe the figures are correct :-
Admitted Living,
Admitted Dead,
Sent to Canton,
Sent to Kennedytown and Alice Memorial Branch up to
31st July,..
Sent to Lai-Chi-Kok,
Under Observation,
To Kennedytown in August,
Plague Cured,
Deaths from Plague,
...........1,627
828
194
26
13
69
11
74
.2,068
2,455 2,455
In addition to these there were treated in the Government Civil Hospital Isolation Wards 32, of which-
7 6.....
19...
.Died.
...Transferred to Hygein. ....Transferred to Kennedytown.
The following table gives the numbers of different nationalities who were affected and died, with the percentage of deaths. This, of course, is only as far as hospital statistics go--the number of dead bodies found in town and sent straight to the burial ground is not included here :—
Europeans, Japanese, Manilamen, Eurasians,
Indians;
Portuguese,
Malays,
West Indians,
Chinese,..............
..
Mortality
Affected.
Died.
per cent.
11
2
18.2
10
G
60'
1
I
100.
3
3
100-
13
10
77.
18
12
66'
3
3
100*
1
1
100.
.2,619
2,447
93.4
The Chinese figures are difficult to work out owing to so many removals having taken place. The above are the numbers where definite results as to recovery or death are known,
Of the 1,627 persons admitted to the Slaughter House Hospital alive 1,037 were males and 590 females. Of the 828 bodies brought in dead 472 were males and 356 females. Considering the comparative smallness of the Chinese female population it will be seen that they suffered severely. By last census the proportion of females
207