2.
3.
409
as to the comparative working of the fontagions Diseases Ordinances in the Straits Settlements and
in Shongkong. In one of the despatches laid before Jn 50
12.
Parliament,
the 26th of July 1881,
Your Lordship said :-
"I am at a
lass to
understand why these Ordinances, which are similar to those "which work satisfactorily at ~ Singapore, should not have "been equally effective at "Hongkong."
however see
#1
Your Lordship will from the enclosed
letters and returns from the
twitt
Militay
0.
Military Authorities that the
annual
average
of armistions to the Military Hospitals for Contagious Diseases, for the past four years, is slightly lower in Stongkong then in the Straits
Settlements, (16024 per cent as
I
against 16.60 per cent) and that in the
year
1801, whilst the
average of admissions in the Straits Settlement's was 14.76 pres
the average strength
cent
of the troops,
troops, in Hongkong
was 13.45
3.
per
cent.
Shose returns also
show that since 18yo the
member's admitted to the Ililitary
Hospital