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616 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 26TH JUNE, 1886:
Enclosure 2.
Report on the Lock Hospital,
GOVERNMENT LOCK HOSPITAL,
HONGKONG, 17th January,
SIR, I have the honour to forward the Annual Report on the work done under the Con Diseases Ordinances in 1885.
2. During the past year, 417 examinations were made at Wántsai, and 12,561 at this and 411 women were detained for treatment.
3. The cases most commonly met were leucorrhoea, ulceration and abrasion of the next in frequency were gonorrhoea and soft sores; and lastly, a few cases of secondary syphilis, ay hard chancre.
4. The following are the maximum and the minimum number of registered' women ex this Establishment and at Wántsai for the last three years :-
1883,. 1884,. 1885,......
.256 in October; 235 in February, .261 in
in November; 227 in August. ...265 in April ; 233 in
December.
5. Compared with 1884, there were more admissions this year, as shown in the subjoined
Number of examinations.
Gonorrhoea.
Leucorrhoea.
Soft Sores.
SYPHILIS.
Primary.
Hard
And [Cutane-
ous
Chancre Erup-
tion.
Secondary.
Ulceration & abrasion of os Uteri.
Labial Abscess.
Warts.
women admitted.
No. of registered
Free from disease.
1884.
12,522
100 72 65
1885.
12,454
67 168 38
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41 2 286 12,236
These were all
93 40*
367 12.03%
And the women detained.
6. The increase, however, was not of a serious character; on the contrary there have bee gonorrhea and soft sores, and a diminution of complaints.
7. A good man Cfwarts were observed, and all were extirpated immediately w
theluxation is stishe hospital of the women so affected.
sessitating
8. The disproportion in the number of those alleged to have conveyed infection and in found actually to be diseased, is again very striking (as shown in Table I), and well worthy of consider
9. Excluding, as in the previous report, all the less serious cases such as gonorrhea, under is included also simple urethritis, which after all cannot be taken as a sure criterion of the a of disease existing in a place, as it is often caused more by men's own fault, and reckoning on sores and syphilis, as is done in Table II, we arrive at this result: of the 37 women accused, & found to be diseased.
10. It is obvious that the majority of the men did not keep company with those who wer medical inspection.
11. An instance corroborating this assertion occurred last August to a sailor from one Majesty's Ships, who was infected in a registered brothel, but, on investigation, it was provid got the disease from a woman who was a stranger there, and had no right to frequent he For this reason, the mistress of the brothel was prosecuted and punished by a fine.
12. The amount of venereal disease in a Colony like Hongkong with a large but variable population, composed of people from different parts of the world, must necessarily vary.
13. I have heard of men, who although they were diseased, did not hesitate to frequent b 14. It would conduce to the better preservation of the public health, if it were widely known Ordinance 10 of 1867, a heavy penalty may be inflicted by the Magistrate on men who behave a disgraceful manner.
15. The Officers of Her Majesty's Navy, of the French and, I believe, of all other foreign war, have been unremitting in helping to check the spread of disease. Their crets are re inspected by the Surgeons, previously to leave being granted to them to come on shore.
16. I regret that their praise-worthy efforts were not fully rewri: led by ving mone
Sailors diseased.
17. I do not see why, with the assistance of the various authorities, and with hygienic understood and practised by the women, disease should not be reduced to a mere fraction. 18. Some of the women presented themselves at the hospital of their own free will they perceived they were infected.
19. Soon after I took charge of this Establishment, it became manifest to m been to all physicians, that the adoption of the same form of the return as is in use navy, leads to omissions, inaccuracy, and confusion.
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