SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOV" GAZETTE OF 26rn JUNE, 1886. 597
disease among the opium smokers that could be put down to opium. At the same time I am of opinion the debility is directly so caused. as their powers of digestion are not impaired and the t of their treament is as follows:-
No.
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
Consumption per diem. 3 mace
Weight on admission.
Weight at end of first month.
9-1 tbs.
Age
No. of years
years.
as smokers.
.40
5
91 lbs.
..32
10
1 mace
99 lbs.
101 iba.
..61
32
5 mace
100 iba.
• 100 lbs.
...70
52
3 mace
99 ibs.
105 lbs.
...35
5
2 mace
100 ibs.
102 tbs.
..63 ........70
10
2 mace
98 lbs.
102 lbs.
40
3 mace
90 lbs.
94 lbs.
The sole treatment these prisoners received was Quinine mixture with low and then the full ordinary diet of the Gaol. They all but the one marked with that one was only in Gaol two weeks; he lost no weight.
diet for the first few increased in weight
The lightest weight of these 7 was 90 lbs. on admission, whereas the lightest weight among the smokers admitted into Gaol was 80 and he was never under treatment at all. The average ht of the opium smokers was about 105, and 28 of them were up to or over the average weight of men admitted into Gaol which is about 110 lbs., that is giving a very liberal average from lations made. My strongest chair coolie who is a giant compared with 99 out of every hundred in ol, only turns the scale just under 130 lbs. It takes a great deal of fat and muscle to make up he smallness of bone in Chinamen. Again I have to state that I find no special symptom as the of pium smoking or its immediate stoppage. On the list of opium smokers the men range 118 to 70 years of age, having been smokers from 1 to 52 years, and consuming from 1 to 5 mace. As I have stated a Committee of Inquiry is at present sitting on the subject of overcrowding in aol.. The question is whether the system can be rendered according to European ideas sufficiently rent to prevent overcrowding or whether we shall be compelled to increase the accommodation he increasing number of scoundrels coming from China proper, for not one in a hundred is born
red in Hongkong, or been a resident for as much as ten years.
I recommend a further reduction of diet, which years ago was reduced to what it is now on my mendation, and I still think, as I said years ago, the system of giving, from 10 to 20 strokes of attan for petty thefts, &c., instead of from a fortnight to three months' better entertainment in and lodging with lighter work than any coolie has outside, would do some good as a deterrent. That is the system pursued in India. and if the Indians can bear the rattan, I don't see why the
we cannot.
GOVERNMENT LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Table XId shews the number of admissions, nativity, sex and disease of patients received into stitution. The number of admissions have been larger than usual and have in the majority of been received from ships in harbour, Coast Ports and Japan. It is a question whether this should be saddled with the keep and expense of sending to their own country of destitute patients from the Coast Ports, and the matter has been referred to the Secretary of State. in all cases in which their nationality can be proved, the Consuls pay their expenses. The ng, which has been now in use a year, has proved all that can be desired in the accomninodation it Three remained at the end of the year. Most have been sent to their native countries incurable.
TUNG WA HOSPITAL.
Of
the total number of patients treated in this Hospital which is entirely managed by Chinese ors and Doctors was 1,967. Of these 1,006 died. The number of out patients treated was 111,878. the number of moribund cases admitted was 283.
The number that remained in Hospital at the end of the year was 99.
he number of Patients, admitted to the Small Pox wards was 36; of these eighteen died. The
of these patients were children.
be number of Vaccinations performed in Hongkong and Kowloon was 2.120.
The chief reason great mortality in this Hospital is that most of the patients, when admitted. are hopeless cases, imese having a great antipathy to going into Hospital at all except in the last extremity, or in
utter destitution.
TEMPORARY LOCK HOSPITAL.
be new Lock Hospital being still occupied as a portion of the Civil Hospital, the private houses ned in my previous reports are stilr occupied for this purpose and are barely sufficient to meet uirements. I hope, as I said in my last report, to be able to state next year that the patients
sferred to the new-Buildings.
able XVa gives the number of patients admitted for the past 28 years and the average number
detention which is 15.6. showing that the majority of cases are of a mild type.
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