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Table NY. The comparative sickness and mortality, for the last 3 years, animget person's employed by Government; including Policemen to, and Prisoners.
itlar impinsch
cases of
No of frums N of cases It of Proportion of Proportion of deaths Gourmand sickness Deaths to techness to st of persons
1845 775. 501.
655
1846 847.
27. 6.50 #cent.
3.62 per cent
28
6.50
•
3-36
1847 833. 230. 20
3.3
2.4
The last Table (N=7) Exhibits the numerical
mortality in marsimum, and the population in
Minimamie,
This
· from the migratory
migratory habits of
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the Indians, who treble the firred returns of numbers of souls annually. Noturthetanding this unfavourable calculation, it will be observed that there is in 1847, a decrease of 50 per cent of sickness,
: amongst persons employed by Government, below
the two preceding years,
and a considerablem
diminution in the rate of mortality.
From the European population and in table. 6, I have excluded the
deaths, given.
ad
Learner, woho have no claims to be regarded constituting a part of the firsed population of
this Colony. The deaths invariably
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secur in those who arrive in this fort sick, and they die from sickness contracted on their voyaga .
It must be adinitted that the Tables
cannot lay claim to great, accuraci, yet they svill afford, it is hoped, a very fair criterion
of the state of health and disease in the Colony
In Table No. 7, a very
during
the last
year.
Large allowance has been made for sickness in that
class, of which no record of sickness has been kept = ; - the cint Officers of Government : Notwith =
this eritended calculation, a remarkable. standing improvement in the health of this department is shows.
Referring to Table. N. 5, arhich must
be regarded as the most important of the whole, it will be seen that the rate of mortality, in proportion to the whole population of. Hongkong, in 1847, was 1.14 per cent. In the
year 1841, the rate of mortality in the county Humberland
was 2.1 per cent; and in