Table IV. Shewing the RATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY of the TROOPS serving in HONGKONG
487
during the Year 1894.
AVERAGE STRENGTH.
ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL.
DEATHS.
AVERAGE DAILY RATE OF SICKNESS.
RATE OF MORTAL- ITY PER 1,000 OF THE STRENGTH,
White. Black. Total. White. Black. Total. White. Black. Total.
White. Black. White. Black.
1,446 1,309 2,755 2,035 870 2,905 24
15
39
112.75 38.61 16.59 11.46
A. F. PRESTON, Surgeon Colonel, A.M.S., Principal Medical Officer, China and Hongkong.
Table V.-Shewing the ADMISSIONS and MORTALITY in the GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL during the Year 1894.
ADMISSIONS.
DEATHS.
DISEASES.
I.-General Diseases.
A. Diseases dependent on Morbid Poisons,-
Sub-Group 1,
2,
3,
3
>>
4, 5,
Europeans.
Indians.
Asiatics.
Total.
Europeans.
175
2892:
26.9:
༠ :
49
142
4
113
278
5
1
42
55
272
1
Indians.
Asiatics.
Total.
༩ :༠
B. Diseases dependent on external agents other than Morbid
Poisons,-- Sub-Group 1,
"
**
3, 4,
C. Developmental Diseases,
1
1
1
1
D. Not classified,
33
-88-8
1
15
16
68
1
70
2
1
3
23 25
चळ
4
1
81
II.-Local Diseases.
Nervous System,
31
2
Eye,
Ear,
☎9*
10
8
Nose,
1
10
11
12
Diseases of the
Circulatory System, Respiratory,
15
54
Digestive,
8 Lymphatic,
111
·9591621
43
86
2
13
15
44
27
1
3
47
146
199
→ ∞
8
17
13
7
11
Thyroid Body,
Supra Renal Capsules,
Urinary System,
17
1
11
29
Generative System,
15
6
30
51
&&
13
Female Breast,
+
14
Male
1
}
15
Organs of Locomotion,
61
11
,111
186
1
8
io
16
Connective Tissue,.
9
5
18
32
17
Skin,
15
9
24
48
III.
Poisons,
3
11
14
IV.
Injuries,
20
io
102 132
2
co co
3
සය
3
•
V.
Surgical Operation, †
Under Observation,
17
13
40 70
1
1
Total,....
831 349
7831,963
30 12 59
101
* Vide III. Poisons. † Table Va.
JAMES A. Lowson,
Acting Superintendent.