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Total number of Prisoners

admitted to Gaol.

5,046

14

608

DISEASES.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24тH JUNE, 1893.

TABLE IX.-K.-Shewing the ADMISSION into HOSPITAL in VICTORIA Gaol, and MORTALITY

during the Year 1892,—Continued.

ADMISSIONS.

DEATHS,

Europeans.

Coloured Persons.

Chinese.

TOTAL. Europeans.]

Coloured Persons.

Chinese. TOTAL.

Brought forward...

9

5

190

201

5

5

XIL-

Oedema of face and lower limbs,

1

1

**

of left leg.

of feet and Anemia,

1

1

2

2

**

of feet and Scrotum,

Erysipelas of face...

Abscess of left axilla,

1

2

of left arm (after vaccination),

1

1

of left arm after vaccination,

1

1

#!

14

of arm and Diarrhæa,

1

}

of left arm, ...

2

2

of left hand, dorsal surface,

1

1

of left knee-joint,

1

1

of right leg,

1

I

of left leg;

1

1

of right foot, plantar surface,

4

of left foot,

"

of feet (plantar surface),

I

1

"}

of right foot,

1

Chronic Ulcer of right leg,

Adenitis of left groin,

of right thigh...

Boil of right Gluteal region,

of left foot,

Carbuncle of right lumbar region,

Fibrous Tumour of perinæum (extirpated),.

Unclassed.-

General Debility,

1

1

I

1

1

1

1

I

I

1

1

12

""

(opium smoker).

IN

13

2

Alcoholism,

1

Wounds and Injuries.-

Sun-stroke,

1

1

Hæmorrhage from ruptured spleen,

1

1

i

Punctured wound and Erysipelas of left ankle-

joint......

1

1

Incised wound of left thumb,

1

1

wounds of left ear, neck, right wrist and right fiuger,

1

1

Incised wounds of left leg,

wound of left foot.

Contused wound of right leg,

1

1

1

1

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33

of left foot,

of little-toe of left foot and

1

Erysipelas,

Contused wound from flogging, Gluteal Abscess after flogging,

Unknown and Unrecognized.-

Observation,

1

1

26

26

6

6

1

17

18

TOTAL,..

14

293

312

6

6

Another death occurred by a Chinese hanging himself in his cell.

L. P. MARQUES, Medical Officer.

Table IXa.-L.Shewing the NUMBER and PERCENTAGE of PRISONERS ADMITTED into VICTORIA GAOL HOSPITAL, on the First Examination by the MEDICAL OFFICER, during the Year 1892.

Sick in Hospital.

Admitted to Hospital on First Medical Examination.

Percentage of Hospital cases on First Medical

Examination.

Percentage of Hospital cases on First Medical Ex.

Europeans. Chinese.

Europeans.

5

Indians.

Chinese.

293 312

Total.

Europeans.

Indians.

3

2

34

Chinese.

Total.

admissions.

To total Gaol

To total Hospital

cases.

To total Hospital

cases.

To total Hospital

cases.

39

0.772 1.250

1.242

1.160

L. P. MARQUES,

Medical Officer.