THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH AUGUST, 1890.
853
There has been no epidemic even the influenza has only appeared in the ordinary form we have seen every year.
DEATHS AMONG EUROPEANS (BRITISH AND FOREIGN),
FEVERS.
YEARS.
VOMITING DIARRHEA. CHOLERA. AND
PURGING.
TOTAL.
Enteric.
Simple Continued.
Typhus.
1873,
6
17
25
17
26
1874,
18
24
1875,
14
24
1876,
10
27
1877,
1878,
15
9
29
1879,
21
14
38
1880,
12
10
1881,
17
10
29
1882,
10
13
13
1883,
1884,
7
1885,
11
...........
12
23
19
1886,
8
1887,
10
1888,
4
1889,
3
2009
16
25
10
****** 189
24
37
19
46
18
25
30
16
The deaths from the above classes of disease for seventeen years among Foreign Residents shew a considerable diminution and is the lowest number in any of these year.
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
1876,
94
343
1877,
145
370
1878,
89
481
33
1879,
116
733
21
1880,
309
373
1881,
438
168
1882,
679
71
1883,
262
571
1884,
132
600
1885,
105
755
1886,
9
772
1887,
9
441
1888,
2
1889,
299 363
*** * ** 23":
288
612
259
696
8
311
834
701
1,304
608
1,478
348
1,030
435
1,079
165
1,215
660
1,496
301
1,035
661
176
1,604
10
326
19
1,136
25
18
764
361 180
236
917
551
years.
Among the Chinese the deaths from the above causes are the smallest number for the last sixteen
The diminution is most noticeable in the bowel complaints.
I regret that I have not been able to send in this report before this but a great deal of trouble has been in making up the Tables, and the clerks had to stop work while making duplicate bills for past months by Government order.
The Honourable W. M. DEANE, C.M.G.,
I have the honour to be,
Sir.
Your obedient Servant,
PII. B. C. AYRES, Colonial Surgeon.
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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