510
VICTORIA GAOL.
10. The following table gives the number of admissions to the Goal and the daily average number of prisoners for the past ten years :--
Year.
1890,... 1891,.. 1892.
1893,
1894,..
1895,
1896,
1897,.....
1898,
Total number admitted to Gaol.
Daily Average No. of Prisoners.
3,444
566.00
5,231
507.00
5,046
515.00
4,010
458.00
3,913
455.00
5,014
472.00
5,582
514.00
5,076
462.00
5,427
511.00
4,789
434.00
1899,
The total admissions to the Gaol was 4,789, or 793 less than in 1898; the daily average 434 or 77 less than in the previous year.
The total number of admissions to Hospital was 503 as compared with 298 in 1898.
Remittent fever caused 63 of them as against 24 in the previous year; dysentery and diarrhwa contributed more cases and 81 were admitted suffering from debility as against 14 in 1898.
There were five deaths from natural causes, one prisoner committed suicide by hanging himself and two were executed.
The New Warders' Quarters is in course of erection, when this building is finished the New Hospital will be available; it is at present occupied by the Warders.
TUNG WAH HOSPITAL.
There were 2,542 patients treated in this hospital during the year, a decrease of 456 as compared with 1898.
Of this number 419 were transferred to other institutions, viz.:
Government Civil Hospital,
Lunatic Asylums,
Kennedytown Hospital,
Tung Wah Branch Plague Hospital,. Italian Convent,
19
2
.135
.262
1
419
Of the admissions 1,491 patients, or 58 per cent., were treated by the Chinese native doctors whereas 556, or 21 per cent., were under Western treatment.
There were 852 deaths as against 842 in the previous year, 268 being moribund on admission. Two thousand two hundred and sixty-one (2,261) Vaccinations were performed in Victoria and the outlying districts, an increase of 673 as compared with 1898.
The chief improvement during the year has been the erection of an Incinerator for destroying condemned clothing, bedding, &c.
The Directors having obtained a free grant of land between Market and Station Streets from the Government the foundation stone of an extension to the hospital was laid by His Excellency the Governor in November last.
This new building, I understand, is intended to supply further accommodation more especially for surgical cases; it includes an operating theatre, and there are also to be several small wards for maternity cases, the latter to be under the immediate care of the Resident Surgeon; in all some 76 extra beds will be provided.
After several consultations the plans were finally decided upon at a meeting of the Directors on the 10th March when Dr. CHUNG and myself were present.
NEW TERRITORY.
Mr. Ho NAI Hor, a licentiate of the local College of Medicine, was appointed Chinese Medical Officer to the New Territory in April last and was stationed at Táipó, his duties being to attend to the minor ailments, mild attacks of fever, &c., occurring amongst the Civil Staff and the Police.
He regularly visits the several Police Stations and treats free any villagers who may apply for advice and medicine.
Free vaccination is a' performed by him during the winter months.
VACCINE INSTITUTE.
The Vaccine Institute has been satisfactorily maintained and was in working order during the whole of the year, with the exception of four months in the summer when Mr. LADDS was away on sick leave.
The lymph as usual was of excellent quality.