HKG-CAR1844-1886

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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841–1941

STATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.

Enclosure 6.

RETURN of Mortality amongst the Chinese during the Year 1852.

Population [of each Place. Died in the Colony. Died out of the Colony. Total City of Victoria 17,070 107 45 ... Dead, bodies of Chinese found exposed by the Police in Victoria, and buried 107 Number of Chinese died in Government Civil Hospital and Gaol 45 Total in Victoria 161 161 Aberdeen and vicinity 1,208 22 22 Heong Kong 198 Stanley, Tylam, and vicinity 1,754 22 Sheakco Saiwan 251 127 Wongneichong 367 Showkowan 540 Sookunpos 1,085 30 30 Total Villages 97 97 Estimated mortality out of colony 770 Grand Total 258 770 1,028

(Signed)

C. MAY, Officiating Registrar General.

Enclosure 7.

Return of the average Number of Prisoners confined in Victoria Gaol during every Day of each Month of the Year 1852, and the Number of Deaths during the Year.

Months. Chinese and Europeans. Coloured Total. Number of Deaths. Remarks. January 31 130 161 1 One Chinese died of consumption. February 31 119 150 March 87 121 April 31 112 143 May 45 113 June 36 126 162 July 54 127 181 August 58 126 184 September 24 136 1 One Chinese died of malignant ulcer of the ... October 13 161 4 One Chinese died of hospital gangrene, two Chinese died of dysentery, and one Manilaman died of fever. November 33 129 2 One Malay died of remittent fever, and one Indian died of dysentery. December 54 103 157 Total 444 1,468 1,912 Average number in each month 1591 Total deaths 11 Mortality, per cent. 8.91

(Signed)

CHARLES MAY, Acting Sheriff.

Enclosure No. 8.

MEMORANDUM showing the Number of Deaths which have occurred in the Garrison of Hong Kong during the Year ended 31st December 1852.

Description of Troops. Quarter ending 31st March. Quarter ending 30th June. Quarter ending 30th Sept. Quarter ending 31st 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 594 686 618 611 627 22 3.6 Malays and natives of India 380 377 363 359 369 37 10-02 // 5-1 996 59

Brigade Office, Victoria, Hong Kong,

10th February 1853.

(Signed) A. E. BURMESTER, Major,

Brigade Major.