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Extract from the Miniate of the 236
Meeting of the Colonial Advisory Medical & Sanitary bommuller of 4 May. 1926
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The Committee then considered the amual reports of the medical and sanitary departments of
Hong Kong for the year 1924, together with a memorandum on the subject which had been prepared by the Medicel
Secretary.
Attention was drawn to the fact that these 2 reports although relating to the year 1924 were not received in the Colonial Office until February, 1926, and the Committee decided to recommend that the Governor should be requested to endeavour to furnish future reports not later than the autumn of the year following that to which they relate.
As regards page 9 of the Medical Department's report, the Committee would be glad to be informed whether it has been found in Hong Kong that beri-beri is prevalent amongst prisoners serving life sentences. In this connection, Dr. Balfour enquired whether the attention of the medical authorities in Hong Kong had been drawn to the report by Dr. Blacklock and two other doctors on the investigation into the health of the prisoners in the jail at Freetown, Sierra Leone, which was printed as appendix 5 to the Sierra Leone
medical report for the year 1923, sending a copy of the riport.
As regards the remarks on page 29 in regard :
to the number of cases of tetanus which proved fatal, the Committee would be glad to be informed whether anti- tetanic serum is used in Hong Kong for the treatment
of this disease.
The Committee made no observations on the
Sanitary Department's report.
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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1924.
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REMARKS BY THE MEDICAL SECRETARY.
The Reports for 1924 were not received until
The Principal Medical Officer should be asked to
see if he cannot render them in the Autum of the following
year in future.
Death and Birth Rates.
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The Chinese Death rate was 21.9 per mille,
and the Birth rate 5.47 per mille. The latter is not correct,
as they do not register the births. Death registry is
compulsory •
An approximate estimate of the Infant Mortality
is 30.7 per cent. of the total deaths.
Epidemic Diseases.
April of 1924.
The Colony was free from Plague.
The Smallpox Epidemic of 1923 continued until
Over 400,000 persons were vaccinated.
Beri-beri was prevalent. 1983 cases were treated
In the Victoria Gaol 200 prisoners showed
slight signs of the disease. The prison was overcrowded.
in the hospitals.
30 10. 14.
Malaria.
The Police from the new Territory suffered
badly from this disease. Quinine parades were instituted:
also in the prisons.
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A small epidemic occurred. 87 cases were
notified.
of these 15 were Europeans .
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