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whilst the efforts at hou e scavenging and disin-morphine, oil of peppermint-constituents of fection which have been inaugurated since the chlorodyne-were detected. plague epidemic are also bound to assist in the direction of prevention of this disease.
of pension to those who have to serve their whole time in the tropios. The radical improvements in this matter in the Army and Navy were brought about by the agitation of the British medical papers, and it is to be hoped that no such agita. 7-I have already mentioned to you the de. tion should be necessary in cases where it is apsirability of having a medical inspection of parent to any one that the conditions of life in 'ricksha and chair coolies before they receive the Public Service are of a much more arduous licences. Many of those poor wretches are and enervating character. To take an example: physically incapable of doing hard work and woo before I can claim a pension here, I will have betide some of them when they get drunken to serve for 33 years-pleasant prospect in this Jacks as fares. I have seen many evidently salubrious island! I would also point out that suffering from cardiac and respiratory disease Army medical officers here draw much larger who at the end of a short journey are fitter for salaries-there is no necessity to talk about the the hospital ward than for running between the relative amount of work; it is well known. shafts of a public vehicle. By granting licences only to those who are certified as physically able for their work the public would be greatly bone- fited and it would also be a kindness to the weaker coolies, who ought to try to procure lighter work. Medical examination need not take up much time and could quite easily be done, say, by the Medical Officer of Health.
8.-What to do with many of our sick and indigent Chinese is daily becoming a serious question. Without making Hongkong the dumping ground of the Kwangtung province, I think it quite possible to have some institution where "chronics" might have a tub or some sound food. The Chinese community might be asked to supply the funds for running the place, and some responsible Government officers should be placed in charge. The number of maimed Chinese patients who do not want to leave the Government Civil Hospital is occasionally large, and I hope that next time any of our local philanthropists are "on the job" they will establish a charity fund for use in these cases; then one can begin to speak about charity.
-The subject of alcoholism and venery I pay more attention to under the heading of the Government Civil Hospital. The great monthly increase up till the 1st of September still proves that the British public is still subject to panic, and I regret to be one to have to announce this. The statistics I give show the increase, but give only a faint idea of the amount of alcoholism which pervaded the colony during the plague period. At that time many who are returned nuder other headings-principally "Digestive" were alcoholic on admission, whilst, for the first time in my experience here, two deaths have to be recorded under the heading "alcohol- ism." There is no doubt that a great deal of the drinking was brought about by the scare caused by the appearance of the disease and that it was not a coincidence but a consequence. The increase of venereal disease during the first nine months of the year is a matter which must be carefully put on record, and it strikes me the day is not far off when Great Britain will rue the day the Contagious Diseases Act was abolished. Many more out-patients were attended than usual, because we had only room for admission of urgent venereal cases. The opium question in India was standing on a perilous footing for some time until the Commission was fortunately appointed which has had no hesitation in jump- ing on the absurd views of those people who pity the "poor degraded Indian." I trust that 1894- in the interests of every colony in the East the British Government will soon see the necessity of appointing a Commission to take evidence on
THE GOVERNMENT ANALYST'S REPORT.
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6.-Ďatura-An alkaloid, indistinguishable from the active principle of the Chinese drug Nau Yeung Fa (flower of Datura alba, Nero was isolated from the contents of a small packet found on the person of a young Chinaman, who was subsequently sentenced to six years impri- sonment with hard labour.
THE MORPHINE ORDINANCE, 1893. 7.-In three prosecutions under this Ordin- ance. eight exhibits were forwarded by the Police Magistrate for examination. In two out of the three instances the exhibits were found to contain hydrochlorate of morphine.
MILK.
8.-Ten analyses of samples of milk supplied under contract to the Government Civil Hor- pital were made during the year. The result of the analyses were in evory instance matis- factory. No samples were sent by the Sanitary Board during the period under review.
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9. Ten steamers with petroleum in bulk arrived from Batoum during the year and dis- charged the whole or part of their cargo. samples of oil were forwarded to this depart- give off inflammable vapour at temperatures on- siderably above the 73° F. limit laid down in the rules and regulations made by the Governor in Council on the 7th December, 1892, under the
ment by the Harbour Master and were found to
provisions of these Ordinances.
WATER.
10.-57 analyses of water were made during the year-16 for the Director of the Public Works Department and Water Authority, two for the Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, and 40. for the Permanent Committee of the Sanitary Board appointed to carry out the special regulations introduced by Government for dealing with the epidemic of bubonic plague. for The majority of these waters, all of which were from shallow wells in the city of Victoris, were distinctly polluted,
The following is Mr. Crow's report
Government Laboratory,
Hongkong, 4th June, 1895. Sir.-I have the honour to submit a statement and judge the contagious diseases question on of the work done in the temporary laboratory of
TOXICOLOGICAL.
its merits. The most noticeable fact about the this hospital during the years 1894. alcohol plague was that during the trying summer when passing the low class "pubs" in 2-Under this head six investigations were Queen's Road the places were practically de- conducted. In two of the cases a decoction of
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11.-Mention may here be made of the fact that as far back as 1884 attention was called to the danger incurred by the public in having re- course to shallow wells for the supply of water for dietetic purposes. In 1887 an analysis of the water of every well known to exist in this city was made at the request of the Sanitary Board. 71 per cent, of the 328 waters submitted for