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HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
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showing a steady increase of the paying patients with the increased accommodation afforded. The amount paid into the Treasury by the Board of Trade for sick seamen was $1,986, and in addition to these receipts, must be calculated the hospital stoppages for the police, which are paid into the Treasury by that department.
The increase of patients and receipts, and the decrease in mortality, speaks well for the working of this establishment, and in this year's Report I speak of it from experience as an inmate for six weeks and in superintendence of it for nearly three months with satisfaction.
Tung Wah Hospital.
Of this hospital what has been said in previous Reports might be said over again. The number of persons admitted in 1875 was 882, of whom 480 died. This large mortality of over 50 per cent. being accounted for by the patients coming in the last stage of disease, very often moribund when brought in. From this it appears to me that the faith of the Chinese in the hospital does not increase. The number of out-patients who attended was 45,685. The great good done by this hospital is vaccination; 1,159 were vaccinated in it last year, and during the year there has been no case of small-pox reported among the Chinese; this disease has been declining yearly in Hong Kong, and the vaccination done in this hospital must have the credit of it.
Victoria Gaol.
Table VIII. shows the actual number of cases treated in the gaol hospital.
Table IX. shows the number of prisoners treated in their cells. Two deaths are recorded, both cases diseased before the patients came into gaol. The principal causes of sickness are diseases of the lungs, fever, dysentery, diarrhea, and old sores. The average number of men seen by me daily is between 50 and 60, not only on account of sickness, but applications for change of diet, increase of clothing, &c. &c. As regards the prison diet, &c., a commission has been sitting during the past year and my opinions on this subject were given before it.
Table X shows the number of prisoners, the sickness, and the mortality in the gaol.
Lock Hospital.
Table XI. A. shows the number of admissions, which have been less than half the number in 1874. The average time of the patients being under treatment being about the same as last year.
Table B. shows the number of women brought under the provisions of "The Contagious Diseases Ordinance" in 1875.
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