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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
REPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT
Enclosure 7.
RETURN of MORTALITY amongst the CHINESE during the Year 1851.
Place. Population of each Place. Died in the Colony. Died out of the Colony. Total City of Victoria 10,666 165 165 Dead bodies of Chinese found exposed by the Police in Victoria and buried 32 32 Number of Chinese died in Government Civil Hospital and Gaol 209 22 22 Total in Victoria 219 219 Aberdeen Stanley and Vicinity 926 939 Sheak 'O 270 6231 Saiwan 234 4 4 Showkewan and Vicinity 1,337 11 11 Sookunpoo 1,094 8 Wongneichung 444 2 Total Villages 36 36 Estimated Mortality out of Colony* 765 765 Grand Total 255 765 1,020* 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.
Months. (Chinese and Europeans. Coloured Total Number of Deaths, Prisoners. January 148 22 164 REMARCA One Chinese of dysentery. February 145 167 March 28 147 175 3 April 27 149 176 May 19 144 163 One Chinese of mortified leg, one Chinese of paralysis, one Chinese committed suicide by hanging. June 29 151 180 One Chinese of hospital gangrene. July 40 149 189 1 One European of apoplexy. August 42 134 176 2 Two Chinese of dysentery. September 61 149 210 October 48 152 200 One European and one Chinese of dysentery November 38 143 181 December 31 147 178 Total 401 1,758 2,159 11 Average number in each month 180 Total Deaths 11 Mortality, say per cent.(Signed) W. IL MITCHELL, Sherif
Enclosure 9.
Memorandum showing the NUMBER of Deaths which have occurred in the GARRISON of HONG KONG, during the Year ended 31st December 1851.
Description of Troops. PERIOD. Quarter ending 30th June. Quarter ending 31st March. Quarter ending 30th Sept. Quarter ending 01st Dec. Average Strength during the Year. Number of Deaths during the Year. Proportion of Deaths to average Strength. Proportion of Deaths to entire Force. Europeans ... ... ... ... Malays and Natives India 22 626 9 577 44 7'5 * 526 7 310 € 648 of } 382 7 390 # 403 5 400 10 Brigade Office, Hong Kong, January 6, 1852. (Signed) 394-2 30 7.6 971+ 74 A. E. BURMESTER, Captain, 7.6 Brigade Major,