Total
48 889,800 20,710 646 589 824 1,308 1,474 849|788, 651 707|690, 629 599 9,585
15. Victoria is the only town, and the figures are given in the foregoing table. 16. Monthly Table of Rainfall :—
113
(9) Quinine has been regularly distributed to certain schools in the most
malarious part of the Colony.
(h) There are no estates employing indentured labour.
(i) The question of housing is dealt with in the Public Health and Build-
ings Ordinance-a copy of which was sent with the report for 1910. () The total deaths from malaria during the past five years have been as
follows:-
1910. 1911.
1912.
1913.
1914.
432
290
241
591 338 This represents a ratio per 1,000 of population of
0-9
0-6
1.7
1-1
0.7
The ratio per 1,000 of admissions to hospitals for malaria among the
British troops during the past five years has been as follows:--
1910.
1911.
177.0 125-5
1912. 1913. 1914.
84-0
42.5
52.6
while among the Indian troops the ratios were:--
1910. 1911. 1912. 1913. 1914.
Where Observed.
Kowloon
Observatory
Royal
January.
February.
Häřeb.
Beptembert.
October.
November.
December.
Total in
Inches.
0-000) 8-240 1·1904-465 12-620) 12-225) 26-905) 4-305′ 19-980 6400 88150720100-215
17. (a) No further legislation has been introduced to prohibit the breeding of mosquitoes; a copy of the by-law in force was sent with the report for 1910. During the past year 429 notices were served calling upon householders to cease the breeding of mosquitoes in their premises, and it was only necessary to institute two prosecutions in connexion therewith.
(b) It has not yet been possible to make any systematic spleen examina- tions of children outside the various hospitals, for reasons given in the previous reports. Kala-azar does not exist in the Colony.
(c) Filarial disease is uncommon in Hong Kong; frequent blood examina-
tions are made in all the hospitals in search of these parasites. (d) The training of nullahs in the vicinity of the city is still in progress, and during 1914 the sum of $33,926.00 was spent on this work. The total length of trained nullahs and cement channels built since the commencement of anti-malarial works in the Colony is 134 miles. (e) The staff consists of 23 trained British inspectors, who give their whole time to sanitary work, five rural police who act also as sanitary inspectors, a storekeeper, and 684 interpreters, foremen, artizans, bullock drivers, scavengers, bargemen, and coolies, whose whole time is occupied in house-cleansing and scavenging, disinfection, clearing brushwood and collecting receptacles for water from the hillsides and waste lands in the neighbourhood of dwellings, in oiling pools, and other sanitary and anti-malarial works.
(f) The amount of quinine issued free during the year was as follows :--
89.8
31.8
83.2
83.9
143.7
As explained in previous reports, the military figures constitute probably the most accurate test of the progress of our anti-malarial works, since they comprise that portion of the population which is under constant medical supervision; even these figures are, however, liable to some fluctuation, depending on the healthiness or otherwise of the last station occupied by the troops, while during the past year, owing to the exigencies of the military situation, troops have been stationed in out- lying portions of the Colony, where no anti-malarial measures have hitherto been needed. The civilian figures are liable to far more violent fluctuations on account of the changing nature of the native popula- tion; there is a daily ebb and flow of nearly four thousand Chinese between Hong Kong and the mainland of China, and in addition the Colony has been liable of late to periodical inroads of large numbers of people who have been disturbed by the political unrest prevail- ing in that country. During 1911 and 1912 some forty to fifty thousand people sought refuge in Hong Kong during the rebellion which led to the establishment of the Republic, and in 1913 a further influx of a like number of persons occurred during the months of July, August, and September, in consequence of renewed political dis- During August and September, 1914, not less than 60,000 Chinese returned hur- riedly to China, owing to fears of a bombardment of the Colony following the out- break of the European war.
turbances.
Special classes are held in all the schools of the Colony for instruction in hygiene, which includes a description of the part played by mosquitoes in the spread of malaria, and mosquito larve in jars covered with mosquito netting are supplied to all the schools, on application, for demonstration purposes.
A considerable quantity of literature on this subject, both in English and Chinese, is also distributed yearly to the community.
FRANCIS CLARK, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Ounces.
Government hospitals
2,732
Tung Wah Hospital...
157
Kwong Wah Hospital
65
Alice Memorial and affiliated hospitals
133
Public Dispensaries
498
Total
3,585
* No. 2 in Appendix I. to [Cd. 8024].
24th February, 1915.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
mimimmimC.O. 885
23 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO
20694
114
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.