CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2] — Page 410

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as to the comparative working of the fontagions Diseases Ordinances in the Straits Settlements and

in Shongkong. In one of the despatches laid before Jn 50

12.

Parliament,

the 26th of July 1881,

Your Lordship said :-

"I am at a

lass to

understand why these Ordinances, which are similar to those "which work satisfactorily at ~ Singapore, should not have "been equally effective at "Hongkong."

however see

#1

Your Lordship will from the enclosed

letters and returns from the

twitt

Militay

0.

Military Authorities that the

annual

average

of armistions to the Military Hospitals for Contagious Diseases, for the past four years, is slightly lower in Stongkong then in the Straits

Settlements, (16024 per cent as

I

against 16.60 per cent) and that in the

year

1801, whilst the

average of admissions in the Straits Settlement's was 14.76 pres

the average strength

cent

of the troops,

troops, in Hongkong

was 13.45

3.

per

cent.

Shose returns also

show that since 18yo the

member's admitted to the Ililitary

Hospital