CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7] — Page 314

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e ferection.

4036

in

Native families iwhetoria 315.

The number of brick and stone buildings

in the occupation of Europeans is,

· and there are many.

more

ire

Course

The number of brick houses occupies by Chinese is

as arriden

Yown Hall.

Hospital. Private houses

Druggists.

Upholsterers.

264

23

1 Failors.

24

30 Shoemakers.

14.

13 Silveroniths

Opiums dealers. Gaverns

15 Blacksmiths

2

14.

3

2

2

2

Eating houses

thie merchants. Bakers.

Fruiterers

Foulterers.

Caconbrokers

General dealers. Chandlers.

Timber anerchants.

There

are

3. Coppersmiths 8 kommengers 8 Watchmaker's. 2. Stationers

4 Picture dealers.

2 Crockery shops

5 Bamboo toorkers.

4.0 Barbers.

102 washermen

& Haughter houses.

1 Brothels.

besides 65 houses at

2

34

32

present untenanted. With but one or two exceptions these houses accommodate an immense number of lodgers; and in mary instances, two or three, trades are

carried

on

beneath the same

Sar

same poof.

my report of the 28th Sebuary

last.

509

last, Mook occasion to permark upon

the

comparative health of the native __ population. Subsequent research has confirmned the favorable opinion. I then jouned. Ance the 14 January have been reported, but I have no means

125 deaths

of ascertaining the number of then whe have died elsewhere from the effect

may

of disease contracted here. Aeon the returns I have obtained from the.

8

native apothecaries, I find that about daily dispensed; I

136

6 paescriptions

are

have met with but for instances of blindness and personal deformity,

circumstance the

more pemarkable when we consider the large proportion of those who have taken small por naturally. Of

nine thousand mine

hundred but 400 have been vaccinated.

and 390 inoculated.

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