640
THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE, SUPPLEMENT, 21ST JULY, 1883.
26. Table V shews the character of the diseases in patients admitted to Hospital during the past year, as usual-Fevers, Bowel, and Chest complaints have their usual prominence in the list.
But an unusual increase is shown in the large number of contusions, wounds, and fractures in this year.
27. Table VI shews the rate of mortality in the Hospital for the past ten years, which rate is very small for a General Hospital.
28. Table VII shews the admissions and deaths in each month of the year, the Summer months May, June, July and August bringing the greatest number.
29. Table VIII shews the number of dead bodies brought to Hospital for examination, which is much in excess of the numbers in former years, which up to 1881 were seldom much over the hundred, and are now 198, of which seventy-eight were bodies of infants, and this is another result of the influx of beggars from Canton, some of whom are dreadful spectacles in the way of disease.
30. Of the six classes of patients admitted to the Government Civil Hospital the increasing numbers of two classes only are at all satisfactory, those sent in by the Board of Trade, and the paying patients. The increase in admission of Police and Government Servants is the most unsatisfactory of all while the slightest suspicion remains that unwholesome overcrowded quarters and residences have anything to say in the matter. That any man earning, from forty to sixty dollars a month or even less should be hard put to it to find himself a decent habitation in a Colony like this is nothing short of a scandal, and here hundreds of Europeans are compelled to live in the most unwholesomely constructed houses, that no one can keep clean with the best intentions, and that no fresh air ever enters. The Police Cases and Destitutes in increasing numbers are no credit to the Colony either.
31. The numbers of admissions and deaths in the Hospital for the past nine years are shewn below.
Deaths.
1874,
Admissions.
829
1874,
.95
1875,
1,010
1875,
.59
1876,
.1,000
1876,
.36
1877,
950
1877,
.49
1878,
..1,289
1878,
.50
1879,
.1,071
1879,
.55
1880,
1,055
1880,
44
1881,
..1.236
1881,
.49
1882,
....1,458
1882,
.68
SMALL POX HOSPITAL.
32. There were no admissions this nine years.
year.
The following numbers shew the admissions for the past
Admissions.
Year.
6
1874,
5
1875,
18
1876,
25
1877,
+
7
1878,
1879,
.13
.29
1880,
1881,
7
0
1882,
VICTORIA GAOL.
33. There is a considerable diminution in the number of prisoners admitted to the Gaol this year, being 652 less than in 1881, but the daily average number in Gaol is still very high, being higher than any previous year except 1881, as the following figures shew.
1874, 1875,
·
1876,
1877,
1878, A.
1879,
1880,
1881. 1882,
Total No. of Prisoners admitted into Gaol. Daily Average No. of Prisoners.
.3,645
350.04
.4,023
374.06
.4,062
432.60
..3,964
395.22
.3,803
519.22
.3,665
576.13
.3,530
575.25
4,150
666
.3,498
622
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