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133
STATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
England. The following remarks of Dr. Harland will show the prevalence of venereal disease amongst the merchant seamen :- "Venereal diseases" he says, "including syphilis, gonorrhea, strictures, and rheumatism, are 23·28 per cent, of all the cases admitted." This number, however, does not include those cases which have occurred in patients admitted under other more serious diseases, and I feel sure that I am speaking within bounds when I say that at least one-half of all the cases admitted apply for treatment of some form or other of venereal, chiefly gonorrhea and stricture." In the flag ship "Hastings,” in a crew of 600 men, upwards of 100 cases occurred. Many of the most active sailors of the squadron, who contracted primary affections here last winter, were invalided in the course of the summer and autumn, in consequence of secondary symptoms having supervened. The other diseases enumerated require no special notice.
TABLE No. 3.-Showing the Number of Policemen, their Wives and Children, actually Sick in 1849, the Number of Deaths, and Proportion of Deaths to Sickness.
The Number of Police, &c., Sick. Europeans Indians Chinese Total Number of Women and Children Sick Total Number of Persons Sick Total Number of Deaths Proportion of Deaths to Persons Sick 109 62 171 9 5.26 per Cent.In this and the succeeding table the gaol-guard are this year, as formerly, included in the number of the policemen.
TABLE No. 4.-Showing the Fixed Number of Policemen, their Wives and Children, the Number of Deaths, and the Proportion of Deaths to Strength.
Average Number of Police Employed Europeans Indians Chinese Women and Children Total Number of Persons Total Number of Deaths Proportion of Deaths to Strength 30 96 24 166 9 5.42 per Cent.In comparing the two preceding tables, it will be observed that the cases of sickness exceeded the strength. This is to be accounted for in two ways: first, the same individuals will at different times come under treatment for different diseases, and thus each man may represent more than one case of sickness; secondly, the police force is liable to frequent changes, so much so that, were all the individuals reckoned who have been in the service, the averages above would be struck against nearly double the strength.
When the class of persons who compose the police are considered, their habits, and the exposed nature of their duties, the above table shows a most gratifying result. The average mortality in the city of Liverpool is only a fraction below the above numbers.
TABLE No. 5-Exhibiting the Comparative Amount of Sickness and Death in each Month, amongst the Police in the several Months of 1847, 1848, and 1849.
Month 1847 Cases 1847 Deaths 1848 Cases 1848 Deaths 1849 Cases 1849 Deaths January 47 79 2 32 February 28 3 39 15 March 31 46 46 1 April 22 47 22 May 55 15 55 June 15 42 9 July 42 56 20 August 9 20 63 September 56 36 17 October 20 77 46 November 63 19 78 December 17 14 5 Total 461 6 650 31 170 9The preceding table would have shown a striking resemblance in numbers between 1847 and 1849, if the figures relating to cases in the former year had been correct. Cases prolonged from month to month are repeated in the reckoning of each month in 1847, whilst in 1848 and 1849 the admissions alone are in the calculations of each month.
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England. The following remarks of Dr. Harland will show the prevalence of venereal disease amongst the merchant seamen :-"Venereal diseases" he says, "including syphilis, gonorrhea, ́strictures, and rheumatism, are 23·28 per cent, of all the cases admitted." This number, how- ever, does not include those cases which have occurred in patients admitted under other more serious discases, and I feel sure that I am speaking within bounds when I say that at least one- half of all the cases admitted apply for treatment of some form or other of venereal, chiefly gonorrhea and stricture." In the flag ship "Hastings,” in a crew of 600 men, upwards of Ï00 cases occurred. Many of the most active sailors of the squadron, who contracted primary affections here last winter, were invalided in the course of the summer and autumn, in con- sequence of secondary symptoms having supervened. The other diseases enumerated require no special notice.
TABLE No. 3.-Showing the Number of Policemen, their Wives and Children, actually Sick in 1849, the Number of Deaths, and Proportion of Deaths to Sickness.
The Number of Police, &c., Sick.
Europeans. Indians,
GI
109:
Proportion of
Chinese.
The Number
Total Number of Women and
Children Sick. ¦ of Persous Sick.
Total Number of Deaths,
Deaths to Persons Sick,
171
9
per Cent. 5.26
In this and the succeeding table the gaol-guard are this year, as formerly, included in tho number of the policemen.
TABLE. No. 4.-Showing the Fixed Number of Policemen, their Wives and Children, the Number of Deaths, and the Proportion of Deaths to Strength.
Arorage Number of Police Employed.
Europeans.
Indians.
Proportion of Deaths to
Chinese.
Women and
Children.
Tutal Number Total Number of Persons. of Deathz.
+ *
30
96*
24
10'
166
Strength.
Fer Cent. 5.42
In comparing the two preceding tables, it will be observed that the cases of sickness exceeded the strength. This is to be accounted for in two ways: first, the same individuals will at different times come under treatment for different diseases, and thus each man may represent more than one case of sickness; secondly, the police force is liable to frequent changes, so much so that, were all the individuals reckoned who have been in the service, the averages above would be struck against nearly double the strength.
When the class of persons who compose the police are considered, their habits, and the exposed nature of their duties, the above table shows a most gratifying result. The average mortality in the city of Liverpool is only a fraction below the above numbers.:
TABLE No. 5-Exhibiting the Comparative Amount of Sickness and Death in each Month, amongst the Police in the several Months of 1847, 1848, and 1849,
Number of Cases of Sickness and Deaths.
Mouth.
1847
1848
1849
Cavaz.
Deaths..
Caser.
Deaths.
Cases.
Deaths.
January February
47
March
31
April
22
May
June
July
August.
September
Octolier
4
November December
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32
2
15
46
47
1
22
55
15
42
9.
56
20
63
17
46
78
5
20
36
77
19
14
40
71
3
7
ca co i
26.
57
1
9
36
}
13
*
36%
2
9:
Total
461
6
650
31
170:
9
$
!
The preceding table would have shown a striking resemblance in numbers betwixt 1847 喀客 cases in the former year had been correct. Cases pro-
and 1849, if the figures relating to
longed from mouth to month are repeated in the reckoning of each mouth in 1847, whilst in
1848 and 1849 the admissions alone are in the calculations of each month.
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