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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD JUNE, 1882.
oard is from the Chinese bumboats and others, this has been the cause of much trouble to the Cap- tains of, and medical men in attendance on the vessels, who have brought the matter to my notice. Could not something more be done to prevent this illicit sale of liquor in the harbour? which is always of the worst possible kind.
The admissions to Hospital this year have been more numerous and are as follows, compared with last year.
1880.
1881.
Police,.
588
498
Board of Trade,
80
117
Private paying Patients,
132*
193
Government Servants,
47*
67
Police Cases,
101*
139
Destitutes,
107*
222
1055
1236
This shews a startling increase in the number of destitutes, and of this class of patients the numbers have been increasing yearly. The Government servants are principally Gaol Officers whose quarters inside the Gaol and outside are very unsatisfactory. Outside they are obliged to live in similar houses to the Chinese, all the small houses that formerly existed, suitable for Europeans, having been absorbed in the mania for building Chinese houses for the purpose of selling them. Consequently it is impossible for men of this class to obtain decent habitation for themselves and their families.
The total number of admissions to Hospital was 1236 a larger number than usual as shewn in the following summary of the last nine years.
Admissions.
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880 1881
952
829
1,010
1,000
950
1,289
1.071
1,055
1.236
The number of the deaths was slightly more than last year, being 49, but even so was much below the average, as the following figures indicate.)
Year.
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880 1881
Deaths.
55
95
59
36
49
50
55
44
49
In 1877 there were 49 deaths to 950 admissions, this year, with 1236 admissions, the deaths were only 49. The year 1878, in which the greatest number were admitted in all the nine years viz. 1289, the deaths were only 50. This shows that the type of disease admitted to the Hospital is for the most part of a very mild character.
Table V shews the characters of diseases admitted to Hospital. Fevers, Bowel and Chest com- plaints and Venereal disease are the chief causes of admissions. There has been this year a larger number of cases than usual, of wounds from various causes, principally contused and incised.
Table VI shows the Rate of Mortality in the Government Civil Hospital for the past ten years and the past year compares very favourably with the previous years.
Table VII shews the admissions and deaths during each month of the year as usual, the summer months from June to October are credited with the largest number.
Table VIII shews the number of dead bodies brought to Hospital, there is a very large increase, the number being 144 as compared with 103 in 1880.
* These figures were by some mistake inaccurately given in the printed report for 1880 and are now corrected.
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