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DIPHTHERIA.
Five cases of Diphtheria were reported during the year, as compared with two during the previous year, and no less than four of these cases died. Two of the cases were Europeans, one of them being imported, and the other three were Chinese, two female children and one adult male.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Six cases of Puerperal Fever were notified during the year of which one only was a European, and the remaining five Chinese. Ten deaths from this disease were, however, registered, all being Chinese, while thirty-four deaths among Chinese were also registered as due to child-birth, and some of these also no doubt were really deaths from septic absorption.
In view of the fact that the registered births among the Chinese number only 963, (the estimated births being 1,605), these 44 deaths represent a very high death-rate among young Chinese parturient women, and there appears to me to be a very great need for some Maternity Charity among the Chinese, preferably in connection with the Tung Wah Hospital and under similar management.
SCARLET FEVER.
Four cases of Scarlet Fever were reported during the year, two on board H.M.S. Barfleur, and two on board H.M.S. Powerful. The infection appears to have been brought out from England, as this disease is practically unknown here, and does not appear to have any tendency to spread among the Chinese.
CHOLERA.
Five cases of Cholera among Chinese were imported by the S.S. Devawongse, from Bangkok in the month of April, and two of them died.
PROSECUTIONS.
The following is a return of the prosecutions that were instituted during the year by myself and the Inspectors of Nuisances acting under my instructions :—
Offences.
Occupation of Basements,
Cockloft and Cubicles.
Unlicensed Common Lodging-Houses,
Overcrowding Tenement Houses,
Overcrowding Common Lodging-Houses,.
Overcrowding Opium Divans,
Overcrowding Matsheds,
Insanitary condition of Matsheds,
"7
Causing Nuisances :--
Bakehouses,
On Private Premises,
In Common Lodging-Houses,
In Public Latrines,
Sum-
monses.
Con- victions.
Penulties.
Remarks.
3
3
$ 75.00
138
117
126
པའོ 2 1: ཡཐ ག ལེཚེ
136
1,658.00 2 cases withdrawn.
95
119
2,400.00 | 16 absconded, 3 dismissed, 3 withdrawn. 1,525.00 6 absconded, 1 withdrawn.
**
103.00
1
14.00
24.00
130.00
150.00
In Public Streets,
On Crown Land,
In Harbour,
1008-0
73
703.00 | 1 withdrawn.
3
20.00
9
175.00
17
93.60 1 dismissed.
10.00
9
9
82.00
Neglect to notify infectious disease,
1
10.00
Keeping Swine without License,
3
6.00
Sleeping in Public Laundry,
11
II
162.00
Sleeping in Fat-boiling Premises,
1
25.00
Obstructing Backyards, . -
9
9
30.00
Not concreting ground surfaces,
11
140.00
Unregistered Laundries,
3
3
35.00
Unregistered Bakehouse,
1
1
10.05
Miscellaneous,
9
157.00
Total,
570
537
$7,783.00