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10 ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE

124

CHINESE,

VICTORIA. VILLAGES.

TOTAL.

Brought forward,

1,056

683

1,739

15

4

19

6

6

11

12

1

13

12

12

9

9

8

8

16

17

11

13

2

3

4

11

8

Opium Shops

Oar dealers,.

Old Iron and Rags dealers,

Painters (House,)

Pawn brokers,

Portrait and Landscape Painters,

Pilots' Houses,.

Poulterers,

Pig Dealers,

Preserved fruits Manufacturera,

Priests,

Quilt (cotton) Manufactories,

Rattan Workers,

Rope and Sailmakers,

Salt Boilers,

Salt Dealere, .

Sedan chairs to hire,.

School Houses,

Shoe Makers, Sheep Dealers,

Slop Shops,

Stationers,

Stone Cutters,

Tanners,

Tailors (for Europeans,)

»

(for Chinese,)

Tepos' Houses,.

12

6

1

4

13

18

18

2

6

6

5

5

8

20

2

26

36

14

8

4

5

125

70

THE COLONIAL SURGEON'S REPORT

POR

1853.

Following the order observed, in previous reports:—

In consequence of the late period of the year at 1852) that I need only add my testimony to his which I was appointed to perform the duties of on the advantages most certain to result from Colonial Surgeon, and the increased amount of a more efficient system of Drainage, an increased professional labour which the untimely death of supply of water, and the planting of trees in all. my much lamented and esteemed friend the late available spots throughout the City and its im- Colonial Surgeon necessarily entailed upon me, mediate neighbourhood. I am compelled to confine my report on the sani- tary condition of the Colony for the year 1853, to a few statistical details and the remarks re. quired for their explanation, There is less cause for regret however on this account, as all the more important measures which still remain to be carried out for the further improvement of the general health of the community were so ably the year. The following table however shows and so frequently insisted on by my talented the average daily number of patients in the Hou predecessor, (more particularly in his report for pital during each month.

THE CIVIL HOSPITAL. The records of this establishment being, unfor- tunately, entirely wanting for several months, I am unable to give any detailed statement of the various diseases treated there in the course of

Tobacconists,

Tile and Brick Dealers,

Tin Mongers,

Umbrella Makers,

Undertakers,.

Vacant Shope,

Water Sellers,

Waabermen's Houses,

6

4

2

3

116

125

241

MONTES,

2

6

8

28

2

30

Wood Sellers, "

11

14

Trades not Specified,

30

5

35

Houses newly built, or building,

28

30

1,512

904

2,416

January, February,

March,

C. MAY,

April,

Officiating Registrar General,

May,

June,

July,

August,.

+

September, October,

November,

December,

Table No. 1.

INDIANS.

CHINESE.

EUROPEANS.

MEN.

WOMEN.

CHILDREN.

11

3

2

7

2

8

3

2

2

7

1

4

*

WOXXX.

CHILDREN.

TOTAL

9

13

16

12

11

11

18

19

17

20

This gives an average of 15 inmates daily throughout the year; but I may mention that during the last five months of the year the average was kept higher than usual by the continued residence of destitute South Sea Islanders (picked up at Sea,) besides one European female and two children, all waiting an opportunity to be sent back to their respective homes.

On a former occasion I was led to recommend

the doing away with the Civil Hospital altogether, but a more extended and practical acquaintance with the actual wants of the Colony in this res pect has since convinced me not only of the ne cessity for such an establishment, but that it should even be put upon a more extended footing than at present, and a more commodious building ob-

ained for it.

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