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Table III gives the monthly admissions to the Hospital for malarial fever from each Police Station during 1904.
The following table gives the total admissions to Hospital and deaths in the Force for the last ten years :-
Year.
Admissions.
Deaths.
1895,
456
8
1896,
585
14
1897,
526
7
1898,
488
19
1899.
692
16
1900,
920
1901,
937
1902,
938
1903,
759
1904,
707
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TROOPS.
This was a much more healthy year for the Troops than the previous one. The marked diminution in the muumber of malarial fever cases admitted to the Military Hospital still continues as is shown by the following figures :—
Return showing the number of Admissions for Malarial Fevers to the Military Hospital during the years 1902, 1903 and 1904.
Amual
Year.
Average Admissions.
Strength.
Ratio per 1,000.
Remarks.
Europeans,
1,381
1,523
1,102.8
1902
Asiatics,
2,741
1,443
526.5
Europeans,
1,220
937
768.0
1903
Asiatics,
2,568
1,223
476.0
Europeans,
1,426
390
273.5
1904
Asiatics,
2,535
621
244.9
W. F. WEBB, Colonel R.A.M.C.,
Principal Medical Officer, South China.
Decrease in 1904
Europeans,
Asiatics,
.......547 or 494.5 per 1,000 of strength.
...602 231.3
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Awill be seen from the figures supplied by the Principal Medical Officer there was a marked diminution in the average duil rate of sickness as also in the inortality rate amongst both the European and Indian Troops;
lowing table shews the rele
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The gears 1908 and 1904. '
Average Strength.
Year.
Admissions into Hospital.
Deaths.
Average daily rate of sickness,
White, Black. Total. White. Black. Total.
White. Black. Total.
White.
Black.
Total.
Mortality per 1,000 of the Strength.
White. Black.
1903,
1904.
1,220 2,568 3,788 | 1,996 | 2,719; 4,715
1,426 2,535 3,961 | 1,774 | 2.032 : 3,776
12
20
32
112-89 116.82 229.7 9-8 7-8
7
17
24 96-07 $2:41 1784 4.9 6.7
W. F. WEBB, Colonel R.A.M.C., Principal Medical Officer, South China.
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.
There is no doubt that this Hospital as a building is behind the times and the question of erecting a new Hospital more in accord with modern requirements cannot be much longer delayed. I would repeat what I stated in my last year's report concerning this.