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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1868.
17.-TABLE shewing the Number and Causes of DEATH of DEAD BODIES brought to the Government Civil Hospital, during the Year 1867.
Destitution,
Dysentery,
Disease of Bowels,.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
Still Born,
Premature Birth,
Congenital Malformation, Small Pox,. Appoplexy,.
Rupture of Aneurism,
Phthisis,.
Disease of Heart,
Empyema,
Pneumonia,
Suffocation,
Drowned,
Probably Drowned,
Poisoning,
Rupture of Spleen,
Wounds,..
Fracture of Skull,
Gun Shot Wound,
Hanging,
Decomposed,
TOTAL,
EUROPEANS.
INDIANS.
CHINESE.
9000
10
2
3
4
1
11
12
9
1
1
1
11
3
29
137
18.—TABLE shewing the Rate of SICKNESS and MORTALITY in the Victoria Gaol during the undermentioned Years.
RATE OF SICKNESS.
RATE OF MORTALITY.
YEARS.
TOTAL No. OF PRISONERS.
AVERAGE No. OF PRISONERS.
TOTAL SICK
IN
HOSPITAL.
TOTAL DEATHS.
To Total.
To Average.
To Total.
To Average.
1845,
452
58
12.83
1.76
1846,
547
135
10
24.68
1.82
1847,
506
90
12
17.78
2.36
1848,
1,093
152
13.9
0.73
1849,
1,252
184
6
10.7
0.48
1850,
992
172
8
17.23
0.80
1851,
179
143
11
79.88
6.14
1852,
160
263
11
164.37
6.87
1853,
138
159
115.21
2.17
1854, · No records
1855,
No records
1856,
1857,
1858,
266
163
23
61.27
8.64
1859,
2,484
239
116
4
4.67
48.53
0.16
1.67
1860,
3,755
336
174
9
4.63
51.78
0.23
2.67
1861,
3,899
4461
135
18
8.46
30.23
0.51
4.08
1862,
3,542
558
176
26
4.96
31.51
0.73
4.65
1863,
3,431
533
50
12
1.45
9.87
0.34
2.25
1864,
3,478
447-4
148
16
4.25
33.10
0.44
3.57
1865,
4,836
566. 95
514
71
10.62
90.66
1.46
12.52
1866,
5,461
584.213
918
70
16.81
157.13
1,28
11.98
1867,
4,907
427.18
496
14
10.10
116.11
0.28
3.27
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The Postal Convention between the United States of America and the Colonial Government of Hongkong is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th February, 1868.
CECIL C. SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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