192 women submitted to examination under the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, and 9,683 examinations were made.
The average detention of the cases taken into Hospital was 14.7 days for all classes of venereal disease.
The number of men admitted into the Military Hospital was 164, as compared with 183 in 1879, of this number 13 contracted constitutional syphilis. All the cases were contracted in Hongkong.
The admissions to the Naval Hospital were 181, as compared with 293 in 1879, of these 23 contracted constitutional syphilis. Of the 181 admissions, 51 cases were not contracted in Hongkong, and of the 23 cases of constitutional syphilis, 11 were not contracted in Hongkong.
The admissions to the Government Civil Hospital were 107, of these 36 did not contract the disease in Hongkong, 47 of these admissions were from the Police Force. Of the Police 15 contracted constitutional syphilis, of the rest 28 contracted constitutional syphilis.
HEALTH OF THE COLONY.
The number of deaths this year among the European Community was 69 as compared with 55 in 1879, the percentage of deaths to the Population was 2.49 as compared with 1.98 in 1879. The average for the past nine years is 2.55.
The Rain-fall this year, 111.57 inches was the largest rainfall recorded in the past nine years. The maximum heat 95° has only once been equalled in the past nine years.
We have much to be thankful for in the heavy rains that have kept the drains of the Colony well flushed, and to that is attributable a slight decrease in a certain class of diseases which have been steadily on the increase during the past few years, as the following Tables show:-
Deaths Among Chinese.
1873. 1874. 1875. 1876. 1877. 1878. 1879. 1880.
Enteric Fevers. 12 125 31 94 145 89 116 309
Simple continued,... 96 46 291 243 370 481 733 373
Typhus. 16 2 8 33 21 "
Diarrhoea. 195 231 288 259 311 701 008 348
Deaths other than Chinese.
1873. 1874. 1875. 1876. 1877. 1878. 1879. 1880.
Enteric Fevers. 1 1 1 5 3 3 1
Simple continued,....... 6 5 9 8 15 21 12
Typhus. 2 4 4 5 1 22
Diarrhoea. 17 17 18 14 10 9 14 10
These figures do not speak well for the sanitation of the Colony of late years, and the small improvement in the figures of last year I am convinced is only due to the tremendous flushing of the drains from the unusually heavy rains we had.
Table XVIII shows the work of the Sanitary Inspectors. The number of persons fined for nuisances was 191, the amount of fines collected $266.10, in 1873 the number of persons fined was 1,557, and the amount of fines collected $1,571.30. I do not see that the nuisances daily committed and filth to be seen in the roads and streets flung out from the houses has in any way abated; far from it. I think things were never in so bad a condition as they are now since I have been here, and we appear in this matter to be getting worse and worse every year.
Six years ago I reported on the unhealthy and unwholesome style adopted in the construction of Chinese houses, but things have been growing steadily worse instead of better.
Whereas in many cases narrow gullies affording some amount of air separated the old houses, now enormous blocks of houses three and four stories high are built back to back or with plain back walls with no apertures in them, and on the worst conceivable plans as regards sanitation. Since I wrote my Annual Report for 1874, in which I particularly brought to notice the construction of Chinese Houses, thousands of houses have been built or pulled down and rebuilt, and hundreds of others built on what were unoccupied places at that time. With only this difference that whereas the old houses were rarely more than two stories high, none are now built less than three and many four stories high and built on as bad if not worse plans than those they have succeeded. I have seen nearly all Queen's Road, a road about three miles long, change in the last seven years from houses two stories high to houses of three
192 women submitted to examination under the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, and 9,683 examinations were made.
The average detention of the cases taken into Hospital was 14.7 days for all classes of venereal disease.
The number of men admitted into the Military Hospital was 164, as compared with 183 in 1879, of this number 13 contracted constitutional syphilis. All the cases were contracted in Hongkong.
The admissions to the Naval Hospital were 181, as compared with 293 in 1879, of these 23 contracted constitutional syphilis. Of the 181 admissions, 51 cases were not contracted in Hongkong, and of the 23 cases of constitutional syphilis, 11 were not contracted in Hongkong.
The admissions to the Government Civil Hospital were 107, of these 36 did not contract the disease in Hongkong, 47 of these admissions were from the Police Force. Of the Police 15 contracted constitutional syphilis, of the rest 28 contracted constitutional syphilis.
HEALTH OF THE COLONY.
The number of deaths this year among the European Community was 69 as compared with 55 in 1879, the percentage of deaths to the Population was 2.49 as compared with 1.98 in 1879. The average for the past nine years is 2.55.
The Rain-fall this year, 111.57 inches was the largest rainfall recorded in the past nine years. The maximum heat 95° has only once been equalled in the past nine years.
We have much to be thankful for in the heavy rains that have kept the drains of the Colony well flushed, and to that is attributable a slight decrease in a certain class of diseases which have been steadily on the increase during the past few years, as the following Tables show:-
Deaths Among Chinese.
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1870.
1880.
Enteric,
12
125
31
94
145
89
116
309
Fevers.
Simple continued,...
96
46
291
243
370
481
733
373
Typhus.
16
2
8
33
21
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J
Diarrhoea.
195
231
288
259
311
701
008
348
Deaths other than Chinese.
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1879.
1880.
Enteric,
1
1
1
5
3
3
Ι
Fevers.
Simple continued,.......
6
5
9
8
15
21
12
Typhus.
2
4
4
5
1
22
Diarrhoea.
17
17
18
14
10
9
14
10
These figures do not speak well for the sanitation of the Colony of late years, and the small improvement in the figures of last year I am convinced is only due to the tremendous flushing of the drains from the unusually heavy rains we had.
Table XVIII shows the work of the Sanitary Inspectors. The number of persons fined for nuisances was 191, the amount of fines collected $266.10, in 1873 the number of persons fined was 1,557, and the amount of fines collected $1,571.30. I do not see that the nuisances daily committed and filth to be seen in the roads and streets flung out from the, houses has any way abated; far from it. I think things were never in so bad a condition as they are now since I have been here, and we appear in this matter to be getting worse and worse every year.
Six years ago I reported on the unhealthy and unwholesome style adopted in the construction of Chinese houses, but things have been growing steadily worse instead of better.
Whereas in many cases narrow gullys affording some amount of air separated the old houses, now enormnous blocks of houses three and four stories high are built back to back or with plain back walls with no apertures in them, and on the worst conceivable plans as regards sanitation. Since I wrote my Annual Report for 1874, in which I particularly brought to notice the construction of Chinese Houses, thousands of houses have been built or pulled down and rebuilt, and hundreds of others built on what were unoccupied places at that time. With only this difference that whereas the old houses were rarely more than two stories high, none are now built less than three and many four stories high and built on as bad if not worse plans than those they have succeeded. I have seen nearly all Queen's Road, a road about three miles long, change in the last seven years from houses two stories high to houses of three
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