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INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The total number of cases of infectious disease notified during the year was 773 (1,179 in 1906) of which 240 were of Plague. The following Table shows the nature and distribution of these diseases :
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CITY OF VICTORIA HEALTH DISTRICTS.
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4
10
5
6
7
00
8
10
Peak.
Kowloon.
Harbour.
New
Territories.
Villages
of
Hongkong.
No
Address.
Imported.
Totals
1907.
Totals
Plague,
1 13 1
2 7 5
11 12 27
5
104
t-
7
34
2
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Typhoid,...
N
16
:
19
8
12
3
N
4 5 240 893
Cholera,
:
74
:
:
4
:
22
18 73 66
74
2
Small Pox, 16 73
Diphtheria, 5
16
3 10
15 18 66
3
1 56
24
10
1
7 11
341
192
2
2
3
2
3 10
1
43
13
Puerperal
Fever,
Scarlet
Fever,
1
1
3
13
:
1
:
:
1
Table II (page 36) shows the number of cases of notifiable disease recorded in each month of the year.
Plague.
There was a small outbreak of Plague during the year, the total number of cases registered being 240. A few of these however eventually proved not to be cases of Plague, while several entries in the register are duplicates, the result of the same case being reported from the Tung Wa Hospital or perhaps from Kowloon and then from one of the Kennedy Town Hospitals. Where no information is obtainable beyond the fact that the patient is a Chinese male (or female, as the case may be), name and address unknown, it is extremely difficult to avoid duplicate entries of such cases in the register, The Non-Chinese cases comprised 4 Indians and 2 Asiatic Portuguese.
The deaths registered numbered 198 and there were only 7 recoveries so that the actual total number of cases discovered must have been 205 with a mortality of 96 per cent.
The deaths were returned as follows:
Bodies sent to the Public Mortuary, Kennedy Town,.
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Kowloon,.......
Patients dying in the Tung Wa Plague Hospital,
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91
19
13
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Government Plague Hospital (including 4 Non-
Chinese),..
Government Civil Hospital (Non-Chinese),...... their own homes and coffined there,
Total,
69
30
53
10
1
35
198
The death-rate among Non-Chinese was therefore 83 per cent., while among the Chinese it was 97 per cent.
During the year 25,265 rats were caught or found dead in the City of Victoria and 13,255 in Kowloon. These were all examined by Dr. HEANLEY at the Public Mortuary with the result that sixteen of those from the City and twelve of those from Kowloon were found to be infected with Plague.
1906.