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paralysis. The splenic dulness was increased, liver normal but skin and conjunctiva yellowish. blood slide taken on admission was a perfect picture and showed in the same field numerous crescents, ringformed pigmented parasites, pigmented leucorytes, and leucocytes containing one, two and even three red corpuscles and parasites The urine contained a slight trace of aibumin, probably due to a stricture which necessitated the urine being drawn off by a No. 4 catheter on the 26th. Guder quinine
both hypodermically and by the mouth, stimulants and free purging the patient slowly improved and the temperature which rose daily to 101° to 103° dropped to normal on the 30th without any further rise. The speech, however, continued thick and indistinct for som time and he told us he couldn't remember the right words " This latter condition, which distressed the patient very much gradually improved under small doses of solide of potassim and a senic though there was an occasional hesi taney for a word now and then. The blood slide taken on the 2nd January (48 hours after the tem- perature fell to normal) was quite free from any malaria. Patient was discharged quite well on the 21st January.
Enclosure I.
Report of the Medical Officer of Victoria Gaol.
VICTORIA GAOL,
HONGKONG, 8th January, 1901.
SIR,--I have the honour to submit for the information of His Excellency the Governor the Annual Medical Report on Victoria Gaol for the year 1905.
The total number of Admissions to the Gaol was 5 432, or 643 more than in 1899; average number of prisoners was 486, or 52 more than in the previous year.
and the daily
The number of Admissions to the Gaol Hospital was 495, as compared with 503 in 1899; and 1,523 less serious cases, including cases of parasitic skin disease, were treated in the cells, being 255 less than in 1899.
Owing to the intermittent character of the supply of vaccine lymph, only 2,638 prisoners were vaccinated during the year, as compared with 3,378 in 1899 and 4,507 in 1898.
Six deaths from natural causes occurred, and there were two executions.
No case of flogging required any after treatment.
The health of the Warders has been almost uniformly good.
The sanitary condition of the Gaol is satisfactory; but there has been repeatedly, in course of the past year, very serious overcrowding.
I resumed medical charge of the Gaol on my return from leave on 12th May. During my absence Dr. Lowsos, Dr. BALL, Dr. WALES, and Major CLARK, R.A.M.C. at different periods acted for me.
I append the following tables :—
I. Return of Diseases and Deaths during the year 1900;
II. Showing the Rate of Sickness and Mortality during the year 1900;
III. Showing the Number and Results of Vaccinations during the past ten years;
IV. Showing General Statistics connected with the Gaol and Gaol Hospital during the past ten
years.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
THE ACTING PRINCIPAL CIVIL MEDICAL OFFICER,
&c.,
&c.
Your obedient Servant,
Joan C. THOMSON, M.D., M.A., Medical Officer.