HONGKONG.
375
No. 31
98
THE PRINCIPAL CIVIL MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT FOR 1897.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.
No. 315.
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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,
HONGKONG, 27th June, 1898.
Sin, I have the honour to forward the Annual Report of the Melical Department for 1897, including the report of the work of the Government Civil Hospital during that year, to which is attached a report on the Lunatic Asylums by the Medical Officer in charge, the report of the Medical Officer in charge of the Gaol and the Tung Wah Hospital. These have been carefully prepared and the tables attached have been as far as possible brought into accord with the nomenclature adopted in the Annual Reports of the Government Civil Hospital. Lastly, there is the report of the Acting Government Analyst.
It will be convenient here to attach a return of the Medical Officers of the Department:
:
under Government.
Date of first Appointment
Leave taken in 1897.
Name of Officer.
Offices held in 1897..
Name of Acting Officer.
Full Pay.
Half Pay.
2 months and
Dr. J. M. Atkinson.
7 days.
:
I
Dr. P. B. C. Ayres, c.M.G.,... 14th August,
"
J. M. Atkinson,..
"J
G. P. Jordan,
"
J. A. Lowsou,
"J
F. W. Clark,
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J. Bell,
"
J. C. Thomson,
1873. 6th August, 1887.
17th August, 1888. 1st Nov., 1889. 14th Sept.,
1895.
Colonial Surgeon.
Supt. G. C. Hospital, Acting Colonial Surgeon, & Principal Civil Medi- cal Officer. Health Officer of Port.
Assistant Surgeon.
12 months.
Drs. Bell & Swan.
Assistant Surgeon,
(Medical Officer of Health).
1st June,
Assistant Surgeon.
1896.
1 month and :
26 days.
Drs. Penny & Swan.
Do.
1st January,
1897.
For the sake of couvenience I continue the order hitherto adopted in the Annual Reports of the Colonial Surgeon.
The
POLICE.
year has been a more healthy one as regards the Police than 1896.
The total number of admissions to the hospital have been 62 less than in the previous year, the average strength of the Force remaining the same. The deaths occurring in the hospital have been 4 as against 7 in 1896.
On referring to Table II it will be seen that the total sickness was slightly increased amongst the European section of the Force, diminished amongst the Chinese, and less in the Indian section; the rate of mortality being practically the saine with the Europeans and Indians, but much less amongst the Chinese members of the Force.
The total number of admissions to hospital during the last ten years is given in the following
table :-
Year.
Europeans.
Indians.
Chinese.
1888,
147
279
231
1889,
166
230
194
1890,.
149
254.
179
1891,
169
285
118
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1892,
152
224
120
1893,
134
255
133
1894,.
127
244
134
1895..
96
254
116
1896,.
94
370
124
1897,
99
320
107