EXHUMATIONS.
231
76 permits were issued to exhume human remains for removal to China or for reburial in the Colony.
HOSPITAL DEATHS.
Table IV D contains a return of the number of deaths in hospitals. They amounted to 2,270 or 38.74 per cent. of the total number of deaths registered during the year.
Table IV E gives particulars regarding the Tung Wa Hospital. The number of patients under treatment during the year was 2,214 as compared with 2,840 in the year 1895 and 2,969 in the year 1893. Of these 1,290 were discharged and 792 died. The percentage of deaths to admissions during the year is 38.80. In the preceding year the percentage was 42.61.
The number of out-patients during the year was :-
Males, Females,
...........84,217 ..45,478
129,695
This number is less by 30,000 than that for the year 1895, and the diminution is no doubt due to the precautions necessitated by the plague.
VACCINATION ORDINANCE.
(No. 5 of 1890.)
For particulars regarding the working of this Ordinance during the year see Table V. 578 notices were issued during the year and 1,002 certificates of successful vaccination received.
There were no prosecutions.
REGISTRATION OF BOOKS. (Ordinance No. 10 of 1888.)
34 books were registered during the year as compared with 28 in 1895. The usual quarterly returns were published in the Gazette.
REGISTRATION OF HOUSEHOLDERS.
(Ordinance No. 13 of 1888, Chap. III.)
Table VI gives particulars regarding the issue of householders' certificates and changes of tenaney.
NIGHT-PASSES.
*(Ordinance No. 13 of 1888, Chap. VI.)
During the year 1,116 applications for quarterly night-passes were received and dealt with and 80 new annual passes were issued.
PERMITS.
(Ordinance No. 3 of 1888, Chap. V.)
The nature and number of permits issued during the year were as follows:-
To fire crackers,
To hold processions,
To perform theatricals,
To hold religious ceremonies,
.............387
14
28
12
441
Permits to erect sheds are now issued by the Director of Public Works.
SURETIES REFERRED FOR Report.
The number of sureties referred to this Department for report during the year amounted to 769, and were distributed as follows:-
Harbour Department,
Magistracy,
Police Department,
Botanical and Afforestation Department,.
Supreme Court,.
575
.100
.216
1
6
Crown Solicitor,
Total,............
901