GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. --No. 249.
The following Annual Report of the Colonial Surgeon, with Returns annexed, for the Year 1881, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd June, 1882.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,
HONGKONG, 9th May, 1882.
SIR,-I have the honour to forward my Annual Report for the year 1881, together with the Tables showing the work done in the different Establishments under my supervision. I also enclose a report furnished by the Acting Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, Dr. MURRAY, A.M.D., and a report from Mr. H. MCCALLUM concerning the analytical work done by him.
POLICE.
There is a decrease in the number of Police, admitted to Hospital this year, of 90 as compared with the number of admissions last year; the decrease is most noticeable in the European and Chinese portions of the Force; the admissions of the former were 126 in 1880, as compared with 89 in 1881, the admissions of the Chinese were 243 in 1880, as compared with 198 in 1881. The Indian portion of the Force show also a slight decrease in the admissions to Hospital, being 224 in 1880, as compared with 214 in 1881.
The number of deaths in the Force was 10 this year, as compared with 13 in 1880; of the 10 deaths only three took place in Hospital.
The admissions from the Force and the number of deaths for the past nine years is shown below.
1873...... 1874........
1875...
1876...
Admissions to Hospital.
477
..346
.436
....410
7
1877..
1878.... 1879..
....418
6
....566
6
.....566
8
1880..
1881...
*....588
13
..498
10