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has been hepatic. Fever has presented no local. peculiarities, and its type has been generally, mild. This Colony has been entirely exempt from epidemies My short experience corroborates Do Young's statement. Hepatitis, either acute or sub-acute the immediate, consequence of the poison of malaria, has according to For Young's obecroation, been the prevailing, malady; and he has
· remarked, that it has invariably, terminated_ i general symptoms of fever or dysentery. This latter disease, certainly presents itself in this climate, in a most alarming and unyielding character, and is the onost serious consummation
of the disease of the liver, alluded to by Dr. Young.
It may not, I hope, be inclevant. to offer the conjecture, that symptoms, too ofter referred to functional disorder of the liver,
correctly, ascribed to the
should be more
commencement of lesion in the centre of the sympathetic system of serves, the semilunar
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ganglion . " I refer to this opinion to show the foundation of any belief, that mercury is too freely used by the Eastern practitioners in the treatment. of disease.
A careful perusal of the statistics embodied in this Report, will, I trust, establish the comparative salubrity of this Colony, and. tend, amongst other advantages, to relieve the Life Insurance Offices in England, from those embarrassments which they experience when
application is made to them by persons about to procced to Hongkong, and induce them to reduce their rate of premiumd
The improvement. I have indicated. must-
be ascribed in de
- great degree to the sanatory measures which have been taken by Government. The admirable drains which intertect this Town
have converted the very sources of disease into accessaries to health. These works have certainly been extty; yet improvements made with the view to the preservation of the public health,