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REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT
Return of the Number and Description of Chinese Vessels-No. 5, continued.
Earwax and SHOWKKWAN,
TOTAL
Description of Boat. No. Males. Fem. Children. No. Males. Fem. Children. No. Males. Fem. Children. Junks 13 10 Trading Boats 71 17 102 Cargo Boats 97 549 120 Passage Boats 51 651 Salt Boats 4 Stone Boats 26 Fishing Boats 7 65 Wood Boats 3 5 Fast Boats and Hakows 34 23 18 Cooking Boats 3 13 Sampans 194 1,287 Lorchas 624 723 Water Boats * Total 854 2,075 1,079 782 44 140 39 31 480 4 41 3 22 18 54 18 (True Copy,)W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
* Upwards of 200 employed in fishing,
(1,361 (5,409 (2,081 1,772 (1,317
(Signed)
CHARLES MAT,
Officiating Registrar-General.
Enclosure 6 in No. 39.
RETURN of the average Number of Prisoners confined in Victoria Gaol during every Day of each Month of the Year 1850.
Mouths. Europeans. Chinese and Coloured Prisoners. Total Number of Deaths. January 24 140 February 26 131 March 25 155 * April 14 87 * May. 17 112 June 17 122 July. 19 110 August. 26 118 September * 25 165 October 19 145 November 17 138 December 13 144 1,809 8 Average Number in each Month 242 1,567 Total Deaths 8 Mortality 5*33 per cent.(True Copy,)
Remarks.
One Indian died of dysentery.
One Chinese died of dysentery.
One Indian died of suppuration of lungs.
One Chinese died of cholera.
One Chinese died of congestion of lungs (One Chinese died of natural causes.
One Chinese died of hospital gangrene. One Chinese died of dysentery.
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(Signed)
W. H. MITCHELL, Sheriff.
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
Enclosure 7 in No. 39.
MEMORANDUM showing the Number of Deaths which have occurred in the Garrison of Hong Kong during the Year ended 31st December, 1850.
PERIOD. Description of Troops. Average Strength. Deaths. Average Strength. Deaths. Average Strength Deaths. Average Strength Deaths. Quarter ending 31st March. Europeans 710 Quarter ending 30th June. Maisys and Natives of) India 412 11 Quarter ending 30th September. 694 19 Quarter ending 31st December. 608 422 15 410 84 499 30 Average Strength during the Year. 625 144 Europeans 392 17 Maisys and Natives of) India 409 41 Number of Deaths during the Year. Proportion of Deaths Europeans 23.04 Maisys and Natives of) India 10.02 17.89 1,034 185Brigade Office, Hong Kong, 6th April, 1851.
(True Copy,)
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
(Signed)
A. E. BURMESTER, Captain, Brigade Major.
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