SANITATION.
Table XI. shows the work done by the Inspectors of Nuisances by which it will be seen that the number of persons fined and the Lumber summoned is much greater than usual. The fines and punishments do not seem to me sufficiently deterrent, at any rate they do not prevent the same people from over and over again making their appearance in Court in the same year for keeping pigs in upstair rooms, having their down spouts choked up, throwing filth into the streets, &c., &c.
WEATHER.
Table XII. gives the Annual Atmospheric Report of 1873, the heat has been greater during the hot season and the cold more severe in the early and latter months than in 1872. The rainfÏÏ as already mentioned is greatly in excess.
The Honorable J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary,
Hosokong.
POLICE.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
PH. B. C. AYRES, Colonial Surgeon.
1.—Tabur showing the ADMissions into Hospital and Deaths, during the
your 1873.
EUROPEANS.
COLORED.
CHINESE.
MONTHS.
TOTAL Admissions.
TOTAL
Deaths.
Admissions."
Deaths. Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Deaths.
January,...
15
11
7
33
February,
10
12
12
34
March,
5
19
5
29
April,
11
13
5
29
May,
19
14
7
40
Juue,
18
10
19
45
July,
13
16
51
August,
13
17
September,
11
October,
11
17
....
November,
9
14
1510 15:
28
58
15
40
$
34
31
December,
15
14
15
4+
Total,...
150
1
180
४
147
477
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II.—TABLE showing the Rate of Sickness and MORTALITY in the POLICE FORCE, during the Year 1873.
AVERAGE STRENGTH.
TOTAL SICK.
TOTAL DEATHS,
RATE OF SICKNESS.
RATE OF MORTALITY,
Europeans.
Colored.
Chinese.
TOTAL.
122
170
324
616
477
11
77.4
per cent.
1.7
per cent.
III.—TABLE showing the RATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY of the Troops sercing in HONGKONG,
during the Year 1873.
STRENGTH.
ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL.
White. Black. Total. White. Black. Totul. White. Black.
975.16 80.75
1,055.91 | 1,857
+ 1,440
+ 10
DEATHS.
RATE OF SICKNESS.
KATE OF MORTALI- TY TO STRENGTH.
Total.
White. Black. White. | Bìack.
12
138.15 | 111.25 1.09 2.5 per cent.per cent. per cent. per cent.
• 4 of this mumber occurred out of Hospital, viz.:—1 drowned at Kowloon, 1 jumped overboard from the Meannor, when sufering from Delirium Trememm: 1 found dead in Guard rasm for Alcoholic poisoning, and 1 found dead in Victoria Gaol from conjestion of the lungs.
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