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The persons admitted into the

bivil Hospital there

are

are

chiefly policemen, but

also included.

officers of the Supreme

the

Court, the Jail, and the servants of Harbour Master, besides cases of destitution found by the police, and persons wounded

in

affrays.

barious

Amongst the diseases, fives of types, and

and of these the remittent is

the chief, and dysentery

numeroued.

hr

every

a/ic

the most...

instance, the malignant-

fever which has appeared in this Colony has been described to be of the remittent form, and certainly it is the prevailing disorden, During the last

year

it

wal

mild in its

character, of short duration, and

a

very

amenable to treatment. „Dysentery presents - peculiar aspect in this climate, and is very different from the disease described generally by Eastern medical writers. It

certainly engendered in many

by malaria. It is

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instances

all disease in China

of all

the most intractable; it will not bear the

cistic and mercurial system

levere

antiphlogistic

of treatment pursued in India. It is most insidious in its progress, giving rite to no_ prominent or distressing symptom, except the frequent toñosmus . Digestion, sleep and montab

vigour

are in most cases unimpaired, while advances, consuming

the disease treacherously,

the body and strongth. Aberf

imperceptibly, the body

of the liver, or sphacelus of the intestines are its lact, almost unperceived, and

· fatal symptoms. In Her Majesty's Navy

stationed here, the disease has not been so

it coinced greater

common as usual, yet it evinced. intensity than it ordinarily, assumes in Hongkong. My friend Fr. Harland, in

in the ::

of his experiencd writing to me murchant seaman's hospital, speaks of

follows. It has been

dysentery, as follows.

very