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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH SEPTEMBER, 1898. 947

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, —No. 420.

The following Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer for 1897 is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th September, 1898.

No. 315.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,

GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,

HONGKONG, 27th June, 1898.

SIR,I have the honour to forward the Annual Report of the Medical Department for 1897, including the report of the work of the Government Civil Hospital during that year, to which is attached a report on the Lunatic Asylums by the Medical Officer in charge, the report of the Medical Officer in charge of the Gaol and the Tung Wah Hospital. These have been carefully prepared and the tables attached have been as far as possible brought into accord with the nomenclature adopted in the Annual Reports of the Government Civil Hospital. Lastly, there is the report of the Acting Government Analyst.

It will be convenient here to attach a return of the Medical Officers of the Department :—

under Government.

Name of Officer.

Date of first Appointment

Leave taken in 1897.

Offices held in 1897.

Name of Acting Officer.

Full Pay.

Half Pay.

Dr. J. M. Atkinson.

Dr. P. B. C. Ayres, C.M.G.,... 14th August,

"

J. M. Atkinson,...........................

23

G. P. Jordan,

"3

J. A. Lowson,

19

F. W. Clark,

"

J. Bell,

"

J. C. Thomson,

1873. 6th August, 1887.

17th August, 1888. 1st Nov., 1889. 14th Sept.,

1895.

1st June,

1896.

1st January,

1897.

Colonial Surgeon.

Supt. G. C. Hospital, Acting Colonial Surgeon, & Principal Civil Medi- cal Officer. Health Officer of Port.

Assistant Surgeon.

2 months and 7 days.

**

Assistant Surgeon,

(Medical Officer of Health).

Assistant Surgeon.

1 month and 26 days.

Do.

12 months.

Drs. Bell & Swan.

Drs. Ponny & Swan.

For the sake of convenience I continue the order hitherto adopted in the Annual Reports of the Colonial Surgeon.

POLICE.

The year has been a more healthy one as regards the Police than 1896.

The total number of admissions to the hospital have been 62 less than in the previous year, the average strength of the Force remaining the same. The deaths occurring in the hospital have been 4 as against 7 in 1896.

On referring to Table II it will be seen that the total sickness was slightly increased amongst the European section of the Force, diminished amongst the Chinese, and less in the Indian section; the rate of mortality being practically the same with the Europeans and Indians, but much less amongst the Chinese members of the Force.

The total number of admissions to hospital during the last ten years is given in the following table:

Year.

Europeans.

Indians.

Chinese.

1888,

147

279

231

1889,

166

230

194

1890,

149

254

179

1891,

169

285

118

1892,

152

224

120

1893,

134

255

133

1894,.

127

244

134

1895,

96

254

116

1896,

94

370

124

1897, .......

99

320

107