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persons employed, inasmuch as nearly double the number of individuals enumerated in the Table have been in the service of the police. The following Table will give a more accurate proportion of mortality to strength :-
TABLE NO. 4.-Showing the Actual Number of Persons employed in the Police Force in the Year 1848, their Wives and Children, and the Proportion of Deaths to the Number of Persons employed.
Number of Policemen employed during 1848. Number of Women and Children. Total Number of Persons. Total Number of Deaths. Percentage of Deaths to Persons. Europeans. 98 Indians. 202 Chinese. 31 37 368 35 9.4Thus it is seen that the actual percentage of mortality in the police has been 9.4 per cent.
The summer of 1848 was remarkable for the intensity of its heat, and for the general and various convulsions and disturbances in the atmosphere. The Chinese themselves have never recollected a season of so much intensity, nor one in which disease was so prevalent or so fatal in its effects. The mortality on the east coast is represented to have been very great, and the character of disease remittent and intermittent fever. It is gratifying to reflect that, although disease has prevailed, and the causes of disease have everywhere been rife, the most exposed of the civil community here have suffered so little from endemic causes. The women and children of the police have passed through the severe trial of a burning season almost with impunity.
The following Table will exhibit numerically the comparative amount of sickness in the police in the several months of the years 1847 and 1848:---
TABLE NO. 5.—Exhibiting the comparative Amount of Sickness and Deaths amongst the Police, in the several months of 1847 and 1848, respectively.
1847 1848 Numerical Excess in Cases and Deaths. Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. January 47 32 2 February 46 47 1 1 1 March 31 55 24 April 32 42 10 May 38 55 1 17 1 June 35 63 28 July 46 78 5 32 5 August 36 77 41 September 40 71 31 October 57 1 November 37 36 December 57 36The total fixed strength of the Police in 1847 was 168
Ditto ditto 1848 208
Excess in strength in 1848 40
The relative excess in the number of cases in the two years is, as shown in the Table :-
1847 216
1848 594
Excess of cases in 1848 378
Deduct proportion of difference in strength in 1848, and it will be found that the actual excess of sickness in 1848 over 1847 amounts to 141 cases, while the excess of deaths is 30; but it must be remembered that 20 deaths in
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persons employed, inasmuch as nearly double the number of individuals enumerated in the Table have been in the service of the police. The following Table will give a more accurate proportion of mortality to strength :-
TABLE NO. 4.-Showing the Actual Number of Persons employed in the Police Force in the Year 1848, their Wives and Children, and the Proportion of Deaths to the Number of Persons employed.
Number of Policemen employed during 1848.
Europeans.
Indians.
Chinese.
Number of Women and Children.
| Total Number |Total Number | Per Ceslage
of Persons.
of Deaths.
of Deathr
to Persons.
98
202
31
37
368
35
9.4
Thus it is seen that the actual per centage of mortality in the police has been 9.4 per cent.
The summer of 1848 was remarkable for the intensity of its heat, and for the general and various convulsions and disturbances in the atmosphere. The Chinese themselves have never recollected a season of so much intensity, nor one in which disease was so prevalent or so fatal in its effects. The mortality on the east coast is represented to have been very great, and the character of disease remittent and intermittent fever. It is gratifying to reflect that, although disease has prevailed, and the causes of disease have everywhere been rife, the most exposed of the civil community here have suffered so little from endemic causes. The women and children of the police have passed through the severe trial of a burning season almost with impunity.
The following Table will exhibit numerically the comparative amount of sickness in the police in the several months of the years 1847 and 1848:---
TABLE NO. 5.—Exhibiting the comparative Amount of Sickness and Deaths amongst the Police, in the several months of 1847 and 1848, respectively.
The Number of cases of Sicknesa
and Deaths.
1847
1648
Numerical Excess in Cases aud Deaths.
294T
1848
Caser. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. | Cases, Deaths. Cases. | Deaths.
January
47
32
2
February
46
47
10:
15
1
March
31
55
24
April
32
42
10
May
38
5
18
June
35
63
26
July.
46
78
32
5
August
36
77
19
41
18
September October
40
71
31
26
57
31
I
November
37
36
*
December
57
36
21
The total fixed strength of the Police in 1847 was
Ditto
ditto
1848
Excess in strength in 1848 .
*
168 208
40
The relative excess in the number of cases in the two years is, as shown in the Table :-
1847 1948
*
•
37 cases. 216
Excess of cases in 1848
*
179
Deduct proportion of difference in strength in 1848, and it will be found that the actual excess of sickness in 1848 over 1847 amounts to 141 cases, while the excess of deaths is 30; but it must be remembered that 20 deaths in
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