GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 255.
The following Annual Report of the Colonial Surgeon, with Returns annexed, for the Year 1882, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st July, 1883.
=
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,
HONGKONG, 21st May, 1883.
SIR,-I have the honour to forward my Annual Report for 1882, together with the Tables shewing the work done in the different Establishments under my supervision and charge; also reports from the Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital and the Government Analyst of the work done by them.
POLICE.
2. There has been a considerable increase in the number of admissions to Hospital from the Force this year as compared with last, the number being 549 as compared with 498 in 1881.
3. The last five years compare unfavourably with the previous four years, all of them being much in excess, though the numerical strength of the Force appears to have decreased to a considerable extent. In 1874 the average strength of the Force was 648, and the admissions to Hospital 346; this year the average strength is 588, and the admissions to Hospital 549.
4. There were eight deaths in the Force this year, three only of these occurred in Hospital, two Indians and one Chinaman. Police Constable ANDERSON was killed while on duty at a fire. Four Lokangs died while absent from duty or on leave.
5. Table I shews the number of admissions from the Police to the Hospital for each month of the year. Table II shews the average strength of the Force, and the percentage of sickness and deaths in it.
6. These tables show only the number of sick admitted to Hospital. Inspectors, married men, and those living out of Barracks are in many cases attended by myself in their quarters, and if necessary remain off duty under medical certificate, so that the real amount of sickness amongst the Police is somewhat more than is shown by these tables, and is difficult to estimate.
7. Admission to Hospital does not imply serious sickness, as many cases are only detained a day or two, and would not be so detained but that it is inconvenient for men messing in Barracks to obtain other dietary than that supplied by the mess, nor could they be depended upon to obey the directions given them in this respect. Therefore it is better for them and for the service that they should remain in Hospital for a few days than that they should run the risk of turning a trifling complaint into a severe one.
8. Table III shews the Police admissions to Hospital from the different Districts and Stations. Some of the Police Stations are of the worst possible description as regards construction and location, notably Nos. 3, 4, 7, 8. Nos 3 and 7 have no excuse, as they have plenty of ground and are in good positions, but Nos 4 and 8 are as badly constructed as they well can be, and their situation, hemmed in as they are, precludes any chance of making them any better. None of the Stations within the city of Victoria, from the Central Station downwards, can be commended in a sanitary point of view either in construction or convenience, and they are nearly all overcrowded.
9. The Police Hulk has long been condemned as worthless on sanitary grounds, besides being rotten and unsafe.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 255.
The following Annual Report of the Colonial Surgeon, with Returns annexed, for the Year 1882, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st July, 1883.
=
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,
HONGKONG, 21st May, 1883.
SIR,-I have the honour to forward my Annual Report for 1882, together with the Tables shewing the work done in the different Establishments under my supervision and charge; also reports from the Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital and the Government Analyst of the work done by them.
POLICE.
2. ere has been a considerable increase in the number of admissions to Hospital from the Force this ye as compared with last, the number being 549 as compared with 498 in 1881
3. The last five years compare unfavourably with the previous four years, all of them being much in excess, though the numerical strength of the Force appears to have decreased to a considerable extent. In 1874 the average strength of the Force was 648, and the admissions to Hospital 346; this year the average strength is 588, and the admissions to Hospital 549.
4. There were eight deaths in the Force this year, three only of these occurred in Hospital, two Indians and one Chinaman. Police Constable ANDERSON was killed while on duty at a fire Four Lokangs died while absent from duty or on leave.
5. Table I shews the number of admissions from the Police to the Hospital for each month of the year. Table II shews the average strength of the Force, and the percentage of sickness and deaths in it.
6 These tables show only the number of sick admitted to Hospital. Inspectors, married men, and those living out of Barracks are in many cases attended by myself in their quarters, and if necessary remain off duty under medical certificate, so that the real amount of sickness amongst the Police is somewhat more than is shown by these tables, and is difficult to estimate.
7. Admission to Hospital does not imply serious sickness, as many cases are only detained a day or two, and would not be so detained but that it is inconvenient for men messing in Barracks to obtain other dietary than that supplied by the mess, nor could they be depended upon to obey the directions given them in this respect. Therefore it is better for them and for the service that they should remain in Hospital for a few days than that they should run the risk of turning a trifling complaint into a severe I am often obliged to send married men in for these reasons, oftener because their quarters are in such an unwholesome atmosphere as to render their chances of a speedy recovery very small.
one.
8. Table III shews the Police admissions to Hospital from the different Districts and Stations. Some of the Police Stations are of the worst possible description as regards construction and location, notably Nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 Nos 3 and 7 have no excuse, as they have plenty of ground and are in good positions, but Nos 4 and 8 are as badly constructed as they well can be, and their situation, hemmed in as they are, precludes any chance of making them any better. None of the Stations within the city of Victoria, from the Central Station downwards, can be commended in a sanitary point of view either in construction or convenience, and they are nearly all overcrowded
9. The Police Hulk has long been condemned as worthless on sanitary grounds, besides being rotten and unsafe..
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.