1887-1903
COLONIAL REPORTS.-ANNUAL.
No. 178.
HONG KONG.
(For Report for 1894 see No. 148.)
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SIR,
Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON to Mr. CHAMBERLAIN.
Government House, Hong Kong,
July 30, 1896.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you the Blue Book for 1895, and to submit the following remarks upon the few occurrences of general interest in a prosperous but somewhat uneventful year.
2. I am happy to say that the terrible scourge known as the bubonic plague, which devastated the Colony during the early summer months of 1894, did not re-appear in epidemic form during the year under review. There were, however, sporadic cases to the number of 44, of which all except one ended fatally. Three of those cases were Portuguese, and the remainder were Chinese. The measures which were taken to prevent the spread of the disease were-
(i.) Isolation of those attacked by the disease at the Kennedy Town Plague Hospital.
(ii.) Disinfection of the infected houses.
(iii.) Segregation for a period of ten days of the people exposed to the infection, in house-boats moored on the confines of the harbour.
It is impossible to say how far the absence of the disease in epidemic form was due to climatic conditions, and how far to the carrying out of the above-mentioned precautions,
3. Finances.
The total revenue collected during 1895 amounted to $2,486,228.89, an increase of $199,025.37 over the revenue of 1894, which was itself larger than that collected in any previous year. The items of revenue which contributed principally to this increase were Land Sales, Post Office, Pawnbrokers' Licences, and Stamps, which show increases of $59,000, $52,000, $24,000, and $37,000 respectively, as compared with the preceding year. On the other hand, there was a decrease of $45,000 in the amount derived from the Opium Farm, due to the less favourable terms of a new contract which came into force on the 1st March 1895, and a decrease of $31,000 in interest, due to the withdrawal of deposits to meet the expenditure requisite on the resumption of the plague-infected area of Taipingshan,
93539, Wt. 20348.
145
1887-1903
COLONIAL REPORTS.- -ANNUAL.
No. 178.
HONG KONG.
(For Report for 1894 see No. 148.)
3
درم
SIR,
Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON to Mr. CHAMBERLAIN.
Government House, Hong Kong,
July 30, 1896.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you the Blue Book for 1895, and to submit the following remarks upon the few occurrences of general interest in a prosperous but somewhat uneventful year.
2. I am happy to say that the terrible scourge known as the bubonic plague, which devastated the Colony during the early summer months of 1894, did not re-appear in epidemic form during the year under review. There were, however, sporadic cases to the number of 44, of which all except one ended fatally. Three of those cases were Portuguese, and the remainder were Chinese. The measures which were taken to prevent the spread of the disease were-
(i.) Isolation of those attacked by the disease at the Kennedy
Town Plague Hospital.
(ii) Disinfection of the infected houses.
(iii.) Segregation for a period of ten days of the people exposed to the infection, in house-boats moored on the confines of the harbour.
It is impossible to say how far the absence of the disease in epidemic form was due to climatic conditions, and how far to the carrying out of the above-mentioned precautions,
3. Finances.
to
The total revenue collected during 1895 amounted $2,486,228.89, an increase of $199,025.37 over the revenue of 1894, which was itself larger than that collected in any previous year. The items of revenue which contributed principally to this increase were Land Sales, Post Office, Pawnbrokers' Licences, and Stamps, which show increases of $59,000, $52,000, $24,000, and $37,000 respectively, as compared with the preceding year. On the other hand, there was a decrease of $45,000 in the amount derived from the Opium Farm, due to the less favourable terms of a new contract which came into force on the 1st March 1895, and a decrease of $31,000 in interest, due to the withdrawal of deposits to meet the expenditure requisite on the resumption of the plague-infected area of Taipingshan,
⚫ 93539, Wt. 20348.
145
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