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Table NY. The comparative sickness and mortality, for the last 3 years, animget person's employed by Government; including Policemen to, and Prisoners.

itlar impinsch

cases of

No of frums N of cases It of Proportion of Proportion of deaths Gourmand sickness Deaths to techness to st of persons

1845 775. 501.

655

1846 847.

27. 6.50 #cent.

3.62 per cent

28

6.50

•

3-36

1847 833. 230. 20

3.3

2.4

The last Table (N=7) Exhibits the numerical

mortality in marsimum, and the population in

Minimamie,

This

· from the migratory

migratory habits of

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the Indians, who treble the firred returns of numbers of souls annually. Noturthetanding this unfavourable calculation, it will be observed that there is in 1847, a decrease of 50 per cent of sickness,

: amongst persons employed by Government, below

the two preceding years,

and a considerablem

diminution in the rate of mortality.

From the European population and in table. 6, I have excluded the

deaths, given.

ad

Learner, woho have no claims to be regarded constituting a part of the firsed population of

this Colony. The deaths invariably

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secur in those who arrive in this fort sick, and they die from sickness contracted on their voyaga .

It must be adinitted that the Tables

cannot lay claim to great, accuraci, yet they svill afford, it is hoped, a very fair criterion

of the state of health and disease in the Colony

In Table No. 7, a very

during

the last

year.

Large allowance has been made for sickness in that

class, of which no record of sickness has been kept = ; - the cint Officers of Government : Notwith =

this eritended calculation, a remarkable. standing improvement in the health of this department is shows.

Referring to Table. N. 5, arhich must

be regarded as the most important of the whole, it will be seen that the rate of mortality, in proportion to the whole population of. Hongkong, in 1847, was 1.14 per cent. In the

year 1841, the rate of mortality in the county Humberland

was 2.1 per cent; and in