10
HONG KONG
REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT
Enclosure 7.
STATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
127
11
RETURN OF MORTALITY amongst the CHINESE during the Year 1851.
SIR,
Population
Died in
of each Place. the Colony.
Died out of the Colony.
Total.
City of Victoria
10,656
165
-
Dead bodies of Chinese found exposed by the Police in
Victoria and buried
32
Number of Chinese died in Government Civil Hospital
and Gaol
209
22
Total in Victoria
219
Aberdeen
Stanley and Vicinity
Sheak 'O
Saiwan
Showkewan and Vicinity
Sook unpoo
Wongneichung
Total Villages
Estimated Mortality out of Colony*
Grand Total
B
.
165
32
22
219
926
6
939
2
270
3
3
234
4
1,337
1,084
8
444
2
2
36
36
765
765
765
1,020
255
*It may be reasonably estimated that three-fourths of Chinese seized with serious diseases in this Colony remove to their native places, two-thirds of whom die; I believe that the deaths of the Colony may be properly stated at 765.
(Signed) C. MAY, Officiating Registrar General.
Enclosure 8.
RETURN of the AVERAGE NUMBER OF PRISONERS confined in the VICTORIA GAOL, during every Day of each Month of the Year 1851.
Enclosure 10.
Victoria, Hong Kong, December 24, 1851. WE have the honour to make the following report of Government Schools for the past year,
An additional school was established at the village of Hong Kong in July, which now contains more pupils than any of the other schools, excepting that at Victoria. Since June the total number of pupils under instruction has averaged 113; 28 of these being at Victoria, 14 at Stanley, 24 at Aberdeen, 20 at Wongneichung, and 27 at Hong Kong.
At Aberdeen and Stanley the schools, owing to the commencement of the fishing season, are almost deserted, At the latter place on the last occasion on which the school was visited, supposing that the small number of scholars might arise from the remissness of the teacher, one of us visited all the private schools established there, and found only one (a missionary school) better attended, one or two being about to shut up till the close of the fishing season.
We have used our discretion in conformity with the plan recommended in deducting from the salary of the teachers, where we deemed it necessary, a certain sum for each scholar less than 30 that the school has contained; by this means some money has been saved and partly expended in the purchase of books and maps; a good map of China having the places noted in the Chinese character has been furnished to each school, and a work on Astronomy has been introduced (we are afraid, however, with very little benefit), to be followed by one on geography and another elementary work on physics.
We should expect much more benefit from these schools if they were placed under more effectual supervision than we are able to afford, and if suitable schoolhouses were erected by Government, the present schoolrooms hired by the teachers themselves being very confined and very dirty.
The Hon. Major W. Caine, Colonial Secretary.
We are, &c.
(Signed)
C. B. HILLIER,
E. P. R. MONCRIEFF, LLD, Committee for Superintending Chinese
Schools.
HONG KONG.
Months.
Chinese and Europeans. Coloured
Total.
Number of
Deaths.
REMARKS.
Prisoners.
Enclosure 11.
January February
16
148
164
1
One Chinese of dysentery.
22
145
167
March
28
147
175
April
27
149
170
May
19
144
163
1845.
June
20
151
180
Do.
-
Do.
July
40
149
189
August
42
134
176
Value
September
6)
149
210
in Dollars.
One Chinese of mortified leg, one Chinese of
paralysis, one Chinese committed suicide by hanging.
One Chinese of hospital gangrene.
One European of apoplexy.
Two Chinese of dysentery.
EXPORT of TREASURE by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steamers, during the Years 1845 to 1851 both inclusive.
1846.
1847.
1848.
1849.
1850.
1851.
Value in Dollars.
Value in Dollars.
Value in Dollars.
Value in Dollars.
Value
Value
in Dollars.
in Dollars.
October
48
152
200
2
One European and one Chinese of dysentery.
November
38
143
181
December
31
147
178
Total
401
1,758
2,159
11
44,173
951,807
786,602
5,652,827
8,823,753
5,793,446 7,381,238
Average number in each month Total Deaths
-
190
11
Mortality, say per cent.
(Signed)
W. H. MITCHELL, Sheriff.
Enclosure 9.
MEMORANDUM showing the NUMBER of DEATHS which have occurred in the GARRISON Of HONG KONG, during the Year ended 31st December 1851.
PERIOD.
Quarter ending Quarter ending Quarter ending Quarter ending!
31st March.
Description of Troops.
Average
Strength.
Deaths.
30th June.
Average
Strength.
Deaths.
30th Sept.
Strength.
Deaths.
31st Dec.
Average
Strength.
Deaths.
Average
Strength
during the Year.
Number of Deaths
Proportion of Deaths
to average Strength.|
during the Year.
Proportion of Deaths
¡to entire Force.
Europeans
Malays and Natives of)
India
526
510
6 648
22
626
9 577
44
7'6
382
7 390
8 403
ما
5 400
10
3942 30
971 74
Brigade Office, Hong Kong,
January 6, 1852,
IMPORTS of OPIUM by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steamers, during the Years 1845 to 1851 both inclusive.
1845.
1846. 1847.
1848.
1849. 1850.
1851.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
of
of
of
of
of
Chests.
Chests. Chests.
Chests.
of Chests. Chests.
No. of Chests.
No.
No.
of
Half Chests.
of Cases.
325
1,284 2,622
10,163
11,175 11,530 19,061
(Signed)
A. E. BURMESTER, Captain,
Brigade Major.
Victoria, Hong Kong,
}
30th January 1852.
C
(Signed)
45
27
534
C. R. MICHELL,
Acting Harbour Master.