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Table 3. The number, proportion of deaths, &e, of all those in the employment of Government, including Government Officers, Police, Wives and Children of Police, Oversons of Roads and Prisoners, during the year 1846

Goverment Officers and

Overseers of Roads. Police, wives and children

of

Police...

Prisoners.

The whole. The whole The Roportion Proportion number of number of number of deaths to of deaths to

persons.

whole

recoveries from deaths. number.

catch.

Bickricht

56

38

2

Hin 28

1 in 19.

244

482

16 Min 154 in 32

135

10 in 54% in 18tho

|Sin 30% \in 231/

547 847. 655 28

Table 4. The population of Honghong, and the proportion of deaths during the year

Population.

Europeans, and Macar

and Goa Portuguese.

1846.

Number of Number of Proportion of Population deaths.

"deaths.""

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990

75 in 135 or 11⁄2 Panty

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Remarks

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In comparing the foregoing Tables with those of the previous year, it will be observed that they do not furnish so much detail, and that one, (see table N° 2 for 1845) giving a statement of the different diseases among the Government Officers so is altogether omitted. This is unavoidable, owing to the death of the Colonial Surgeon, the late Dr. Dill, in the month of September and his successor, being unable to give an accurate return of the diseases for the first nine months, has thought it better to leave this table blank, than to make a partial return only

Table I. ). _ We note that among the bivil Government Officers the average amount of sickness has been recarly the same in every

month excepting February, April, and May. The number of cases has been much smaller than in the former year,

the total being 38, while in 1845 they amounted. to 134. The deaths 2._ Oversier of Reads, who died in hospital, and the other the Colonial Surgeon.

and the

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Among the Police, the number of sich in each month does not vary very much, the smallest being in April, 29-

e greatest in November, 50 — the total amount, 482, gives about 40 as the average. The most prevalent diseases have been Intermittent and Remittent fever, and Dysentery. The deaths in all 16. 5 of these Europeans, and 11 Indians _ and of the latter of have died since the cold weather set in. The disease has been chiefly Dysentery The difficulties thrown in the way of the surgeon in treating cases of sickness aming the Indian Police are very great, owing to the aversion most of them have to European practice; and thus disease is often far advanced before any report is made, and even then, they do not hesitate to say, they