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No cases of typhus fever or relapsing fever occurred. One Chinese death from hydrophobia was notified.
INTERMENTS.
The following number of burials in the various cemeteries took place during the years 1916 and 1917:
General Cemeteries.
1916 1917 Colonial, 58 60 Parsee, 889 956 Roman Catholic, 59 34 Mohammedan, 0 0 Japanese Crematorium, 26 28 Sikh Crematorium, 11 9 Jewish, 1 0 Malay, 0 0 Total, 1,044 1,087Chinese Cemeteries.
1916 1917 Mount Caroline, 609 575 Kai Lung Wan, 1,303 1,078 Tung Wah Hospital, 4,687 4,530 Protestant, 52 42 Eurasian, 3 2 Shaukiwan, 0 0 Stanley, 227 238 Aberdeen, 48 34 Shek O, 0 7 Ma Tau Wai, 3 0 Chinese Permanent Cemetery, 29 28 Lamma Island, 7 10 Hau Pui Lung, 2,125 2,429 Sai Yu Shek, 116 104 Sai Yu Shek (Christian), 19 9 Kowloon Tong, 113 112 Chai Wan, 199 215 Cheung Leung Tin, 5 0 Tai Shek Ku, 3 3 Total, 9,551 9,416DISINFECTING STATION.
The Disinfecting Station in Victoria and Kowloon dealt with 36,767 articles of clothing, bedding, etc., (45,669 in 1916).
The disinfecting apparatus in Victoria was in use on 177 days and that in Kowloon on 91 days.