THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH MARCH, 1905.
Source of Bodies.
The following Table shows the source of the bodies. It will be seen that 60.3% of the total number were found thrown out either into the street, hill- side, vacant ground, or harbour :—
1904.
Found in No. of House,
In
Bodies. Matshed Street.
or Boat.
Vacant
Hillside or
Ground.
In
Har-
bour.
Total % Dumped.
January,
28
10
12
February,
21
7
March,
40
17
14
April,
66
33
13
– AN O
May,.
102
48
23
19
June,
57
27
9
14
65.1 %
61.9
82.5
71
50 53 * 52.6
77
July,
79
19
14
28
18
76
"
August,
61
23
6
18
14
62.3
September,
45
20
11
10
55.5
October,
79
#2
16
14
59.5
November,
40
18
11
55
December,
57
23
18
60
It will be seen from the small Table below that a larger number, in proportion, of Non-Plague cases are dumped than Plague cases :---
Non-Plague Cases.—Total 556.
Found in house, etc. in which they lived,...199357 % Found thrown out in street, hillside, etc.,...357 = 64·3 %
Plague Cases.Total 118.
Found in house in which they lived, ...............68=57·6 % Found thrown out into street, etc., .........50=42·1 %
In addition to the bodies examined by post-mortem in the Mortuary, 414 bodies have been inspected by the Inspectors and given burial orders, no suspicion of infectious disease being present.
These deaths are divided up as follows:-
New Kowloon,-
Old Kowloon,...
.168
Kowloon City and District,....149 Sham Shui Po and District, 97 (Since the
1st of August, 1904, only.)
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The following are the causes of death assigned to them :—
Asthma, Bronchitis,
Cardiac Failure....
Child Birth,
25
44
3
4
Convulsions,
Cancer,....
Debility,
9
1
18
Dropsy,
4
Dysentery,
1
Diarrhoea,
13
Fever,
24
Fracture of Skull,
1
Malaria,
1
Malnutrition,
2
Marasmus,
5
Newly Born,
1
Pneumonia,
20
Tuberculosis of Lungs,
...104
Old Age,
..116
1
16
Syphilis, Beri-Beri,
I have, &c.,
H. MACFARLANE, L.R.C.P., D.P.H., Medical Officer in charge of Mortuary, Kowloon.
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