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THE HONGKONG 'GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 1ST DECEMBER, 1894.

HEALTH OF THE COLONY,

Table XVI shews the rate of mortality among the foreign residents in Hongkong for the past ten years. There is again a rise in the percentage of deaths, it being 2.22 as compared with 1.79 in 1892, and 1.36 in 1891. But it compares favourably with the preceding seven years. Still the slow but steady rise in the past three years must be looked upon with suspicion.

The following two tables shew the number of deaths among the European and Chinese cominun- ities from diseases that may be attributed to filth.

DEATHS AMONG EUROPEANS (BRITISH AND FOREIGN).

FEVERS.

VOMITING

YEARS.

DIARRHEA. CHOLERA.

AND

TOTAL.

PURGING.

Enteric.

Simple Continued.

Typhus,

1878,

1874,

1875,

34 10 3

6

2

17

4

17

18

14

778-

25

26

1876,

1877,

8

10

1878,

3

15

9

1879,

21

14

1880,

12

10

1881,

2

17

10

*******

24

24

27

29

38

24

29

1882,

10

13

13

37

1883,

1

9

19

1884,

7

12

23

1885,

7

19

46

1886,

5

18

1887,

7

10

25

1888,

16

25

50

1889,

2

10

1890,

4

4

15

1891,

1892,

1

6

1893,

5

11

12679

Choleraic Diarrhoea 1.

DEATHS AMONG CHINESE.

FEVERS.

VOMITING

YEARS.

DIARRHEA. CHOLERA. AND

TOTAL.

PURGING.

Enteric.

Simple Continued.

Typhus.

1873,

12

96

16

195

319

1874,

125

46

231

402

1875,

31

291

288

612

1876,

94

343

259

696

1877,

145

370

8

311

834

1878,

89

481

33

701

1,304

1879,

116

733

21

608

1,478

1880,

309

373

348

1,030

1881,

438

168

38

1882,

679

71

1883,

262

571

132

600

1884,

1885,

105

755

1886,

772

1887,

441

299

1888,

363

1889,

342

~ ~ No: 8:

435

1,079

465

1,215

660

1,496

301

1,035

561

176

1,604

10

326

19

1,136

25

276

13

764

361

236

917

180

551

216

1

562

1890,

427

329

9

771

1891,

446

231

1892, 1893,

448

294

::

677

742