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REPORT OF THE ACTING COLONIAL SURGEON for the Year 1871.
Whatever may be said against the working of the "Contagious Diseases Act" at home, there can be no doubt that in Hongkong the results are most satisfactory and valuable. In Table C it will be seen that out of 460 men admitted to the Military, Naval Police, and Seamen's Hospitals, 157 contracted the disease elsewhere than in Hongkong, and out of an average monthly number of 10,904 men in Port and Garrison, only 0.34 per cent. per month were diseased.
EXTRACTS from Special Report on Lock Hospital by Dr. R. Young.
5.-A reference to Table A shows that the type of disease met with is more amen- able to treatment, from the fact that the average number of days during which patients were detained in Hospital has been reduced to a shorter period than has yet been reached during the past 14 years of the Hospital's existence. In 1870 it was 23.1 days, while during 1871 it has been 18.5 days.
6.-Tables B, C, D, E, and F show the amount of venereal disease met with in the Hospitals of this Colony, and the measures taken to prevent its spread. It will be seen on reference to Table C that in two-thirds of the admissions into the Seamen's and Civil
Hospitals, the disease was not contracted in Hongkong. But for the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, there would soon be abundance of venereal disease in the Colony. I base this assertion on the fact that about 50 per cent. of those who for the first time submit voluntarily to examination are found to be diseased.
7.-I am frequently assured by Surgeons well qualified to give an opinion on the subject, that there is no place so free from this disease as Hongkong; and I am sure that when once the good that emanates from this Ordinance is properly understood at home, it will receive as much support as it now does opposition.
REPORT OF THE ACTING COLONIAL SURGEON FOR THE Year 1872.
Tables A, B, C, D, E, and F show the Statistics of the Hospital and the working of the Contagious Diseases Act in Hongkong. In Table C it will be found that of the 432 men diseased, 129 contracted the disease elsewhere than in Hongkong. The average number of men in Port and Garrison per month is 12,010, and the average of men diseased is only 0.29 per month. Last year the average was 0.34.
EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE COLONIAL SURGEON FOR THE YEAR 1888.
Last year I reported the abolishment of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, and the unexpected wishes of the women of all classes to continue the Medical Examination. This voluntary attendance has been, contrary to my expectations, wonderfully good and regular; but, notwithstanding this, the cases admitted to Hospital are of a much graver type.
The extent of the severity is well indicated by the average number of days under treatment, which has risen from 13.9 to 24.4, a larger average than has occurred since 1869.
At any rate I think it is well shown by these tables that the voluntary examination of the women is doing a great deal of good. We have much to be thankful for that they have shown so much sense, and it speaks well for the way the examinations are con- ducted in this Colony that they have caused no offence to the women.
EXTRACTS FROM THE STATISTICAL REPORT ON THE HEALTH OF THE NAVY FOR 1891.
Foremost among the localities at which these diseases were contracted stand Hong- kong and Singapore, at which places a severe form of disease, frequently followed by constitutional symptoms, obtains. The medical officer of the "Egeria" makes the following remarks, "Concerning venereal diseases the amount of injury done by them is simply lamentable, more especially by syphilis, which, since the "Contagious Diseases Acts' were abolished at Hongkong and Singapore, has become very prevalent and of a bad type, and which, if something be not done to minimise the evil, will seriously
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impair the efficiency of the service on this station, and do incalculable injury to inno- "cent wives and children. At the present time, when the crew is mustered, it is deplorable to see so many fine young men whose constitutions are ruined and their * usefulness in the service pretty well destroyed by this preventible disease; the number I know to be so diseased is quite alarming; half the cases discharged to hospital were The medical officer of the "Victor Emanuel" makes the sent for this complaint." following observations with reference to the disease at Hongkong: "On visiting the hospitals where Chinese women present themselves for treatment, the terrible ravages "of syphilis are painfully impressive. Up to the time of their application for relief they have not been subjected to any kind of treatment, and the disease has played havoc quite unchecked. Our men are exposed to such risks, and out of a crew of barely 300 men over 50 have been about 700 days unfit to do active duty."
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(SURGEON SPRY, R.N., IN) STATISTICAL REPORT ON THE HEALTH of the NAVY FOR 1895. With reference to Hongkong, "some of the most severe cases were contracted at "this place. Venereal diseases are undoubtedly on the increase in this Colony, and the cases which come under treatment certainly show a larger proportion of the severe "form of the malady than was formerly the case."-
Disease.
Syphilis Primary Syphilis Secondary
Gonorrhoea
Casen,
VENEREAL DISEASE ON THE CHINA STATION.
Invalided.
Dead.
(Average Strength, 5,000.)
Patio per 1,000 of
Average Ration for 8
Strength.
On Board.
Daya Sickness.
In Hospital.
Total.
Average Number of Men
Casca.
Sick Daily.
Invalided.
Dead.
Bick Daily.
Cases.
years, 1887-1894.
5.02 74-04
Invalided.
Dead.
Sick Daily,
350
6,604 2,569 9,173 25-13
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Total
...
155 11
642 8 1,147 19
2,462 3,540 6,002 16-44 19,944 3,852 13,796 37-79 128-4 1-6 |│•2
31 2.2
3-28 38-732.57.1
7-55 123-51 67
5.38
3.64
7.45
119,0109,961 28,971 79-37 229-43-8-2 15-87 236-3 3-25 1 16-49
Showing the admissions
LOCK HOSPITAL.
into the Government Lock Hospital, during the 35 years of its existence, with the number of Diets issued and the Average Length of Treatment :-
Admissions.
Number of Diets Issued.
Average Number of Days Treated.
1858
124
1858
4,797
1858
43.8
1850
162
1859
5,389
1859
30-8
1860
361
1860
9,107
1860
23-7
1861
442 1861
10,778
1861
23.4
1862
...
485
1862
12,193
1862
22.0
1863
420
1863
11,707
1863
23.7
1864
...
422
1864
11,940
1864
27-0
1865
390 1865
13,303
1865
28-0
1866
406
1866
13,060
1866
28.6
1867
434
1867
13,120
1867
25.6
www
1868
579
1868
16,462
1868
23.6
546
1869
16,799
1869
24.8
722 1870
18,382
1870
23.1
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593
1871
12,308
1871
18-5
1872
650
1872
15,103
1872
20.9
Total
6,762
Total
182,448
1869
1870
1871
1917
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