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SUPPLEMENT

To the HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE of 26th June, 1886.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 244.

The following Report of the Colonial Surgeon for the year 1885, together with its Enclosures, were laid before the Legislative Council on the 14th ultimo, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th June, 1886.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,

HONGKONG, 10th May, 1886.

SIR,I have the honour to forward my Annual Report for the year 1885, together with the 'ables showing the work done in the different Establishments in my Department I also forward reports 'om the Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, the Superintendent of the Lock Hospital, nd the Government Analyst.

POLICE.

The admissions from the Police Force to Hospital show the slight increase of nine in 1885 as pared with the admissions in 1884. For the last five years the number of admissions to Hospital have een as follows:-1881, 498; 1882, 549; 1883, 599; 1884, 48; and 1985 495; so that the impro ement in the health of the whole Force taken as a total, who the strength of the differe... years is aken into consideration, still continues. The average strength of the Force in the last five years has een as follows:-1881, 624; 1882, 582; 1883, 658; 1884, 666; and 1885, 674.

There were nine deaths in the Force this year, viz., three Europeans, one Indian and five Chinese. Two Europeans died in Hospital, one from cellulitis and one from heat apoplexy. The other died in his wn quarters from apoplexy. The Indian died while in India on leave. Gr the Chinese, three died a Hospital, one of these of cholera, the rest away in China on leave.

Table I shows the admissions of each section of the Force to Hospital in the different months of he year, the largest numbers being as usual during the summer months.

Table II gives the average strength of the different sections of the Force, the deaths, rate of ickness and mortality to strength.

Table III shows the admissions to Hospital from the different stations and districts of the several ections of the Force during each month of the year.

The Central District Stations, as usual, show up worst, but this year worse than ever in the Euro- an portion of the Force, for while the Indian and Chinese sections in this district show a decrease espectively of 14 and 7 admissions, the European section shows an increase of 36. The admissions om this portion of the Force in this district in 1884 were 41, whereas in 1885 they numbered 77.

Whitfeild Station still holds its own as the worst of the outstations, sending on the worst type of nalarial fever cases, and this is entirely due to the great amount of earth cutting in virgin soil going n in the neighbourhood.

The other stations were about the same average as last year. The only station that has been mproved is that of the Water Police, on being removed from a Hulk to a large and airy building on

hore.

The admissions to Hospital from the various sections of the Force for the last five years are as ǝllows:-

Europeans.

Indians.

Chinese.

Admissions to Hospital, 1881........

88

212

198

Do., Do.,

1882....... 1883

92

230

227

...113

246

239

Do.,

1884...

87

224

175

Do.,

1885...

.124

208

163

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