NAME.
SENTENCE.
124
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH MARCH, 1866.
The Monthly weight of EUROPEAN PRISONERS confined in Victoria Gaol in the Year, 1865.
JANUARY.
FEBRUARY.
MARCH.
APRIL.
MAY.
JUNE.
JULY.
AUGUST.
SEPTEMBER.
OCTOBER.
NOVEMBER.
C. W.
|Life, ·
148
W. M.
Life,.
W. H.
|Life,.
C. A.
Life,
158
A. J.
Life,
153
A. B.
Life,
166 164
149 153 152 148 132 146 156 147 153 147 153 146 144 150 148 148 147 141 1:48 182 157 158 150 151 150 164 153 155 153 153 150 145 169 168 164 165 165
150 150 149 149 145 144 148 135 135 135 153 157 157 159 161 147 148 145
147
145
146
134.
138
147 147
164 165
166
162 167
K. B.
10 years,
108
108 112
112
113
1101
100
109 112
112
113 116
W. S.
8 years,
135
134 135
139
130
130
131
132 130
132
135 130
A. S.
3 years,
139
140
146
151
150 154
145
F. X.
3
years,
135
140
144
144
E. M.
6
years,
197 | 126
124 127
148 148 124 122
143 139 139 142 141 139 135 136 138 128 130 119 121 123 129 126 127
W. D.
3
years,
130
127
*
J. D.
7 years,
159
159
161 101
A. T.
4 years,
137
137
160 150 137 139 143 140 132 136
157 155
140 155 150 137
155
IV.. THE CONVICT HULK.
Table IX. shews the rate of sickness and mortality, in the Convict Hulk at Stone Cutter's Island, during the past year. The result is not so satisfactory as it was in 1864 which is another proof of the sickly character of the past season. Notwithstanding this the men appear for the most part robust and healthy and are well cared for, while at the same time imprisonment to them is somewhat more than mere detention; as they are really obliged to work.
It is somewhat remarkable that not a single case of Yellow fever occurred on the island. This is in part no doubi attribut- able to the great care taken in sending prisoners thither to avoid sending any who were likely to convey the disease.
V. THE LOCK HOSPITAL.
Table X. gives all necessary information in regard to this Institution. The good it does is undoubted; the good it might do were all unlicensed brothels suppressed is incalculable. At present many of the worst cases of infected women escape entirely the beneficial operation of the Ordinance, by removing to unlicensed houses, where they propagate infection without hindrance, to the great injury of the troops and sailors. Greater stringency is required to meet this evil as the prevalence of venereal disease is again becoming the subject of complaint on the part of the Military and Naval Medical authorities. I believe that if any plan can be devised so as to bring the whole of the prostitutes of the Colony under the system of periodical examination, as adopted in regard to the licensed houses, the disease would become nearly unknown here. As it is I am certain that very few cases of disease are contracted in the licensed houses, from their nominal inmates.
Table XI. is an approximative estimate of the Mortality among Foreign Residents in Hongkong during the last eight years. The data from which it is compiled are furnished to me, so far as the number of Residents is concerned, by the Registrar General, and by the Sextons of the two cemetaries so far as the deaths are concerned. These data however exclude in both cases Military, Naval and Merchant Seainen, as well as those who have been buried from the Hospitals. From this table it appears that the Residents actually died in sinaller numbers than in the preceding year. From the manner in which the table is compiled, it is impossible to say positively, whether the amount of sickness as well as the mortality has been less, but I am inclined to believe that it has really been very much greater, and that the actual rate of mortality has only not appeared by reason of the number of invalids who have left the Colony, either in time to recover their health, or to be counted in the death returns of some other place. I believe that it is the opinion of the majority of the medical practitioners here, that no such sickly year as the past, has been experienced since 1858.
Table XII. gives the usual information regarding the work performfed by the Inspector of Nuisances attached to this Department.
Table XIII. shews the annual mean state of the atmosphere during the year 1865, as recorded at the Government Civil Hospital.
Abnormalities.
Intense Jaundice.
Fluidity of the Blood.
Congestion of Viscera.
Enlargement and
brittleness of liver.
Greenish black fluid
• in stomach.
* Discharged.
APPENDIX.
J. I. MURRAY; M.D., Colonial Surgeon.
Post Mortem Examination of bodies of Prisoners who died of yellow fever.
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Skin, conjunctiva and cartilages of ribs, &c., of greenish yellow hue.
In one instance only was there any attempt at coagulation: it consisted in a small clot in the left ventricle. In every case the spleen was very much distended (in one weighing 28 ounces). Diaphragmatic surface
of liver generally of a mottled appearance, and sometimes coated with reddish serinn.
Surface of kidneys at times very vascular. Mucous membrance of stomach near pylorus generally intensely congested, and in many cases studded with spots of blood. The heart in one instance had several spots of blood on its surface. A slight turg escence of blood in the brain in one instance. Liver much increased in size and but little in weight. The substance pale and presenting
oil globules under the microscope. The gall bladder always contained bile of a very liquid
character.
numerous
This fluid resembled that contained in the gall bladder, but was much more viscil.
In one instance there was a similar fluid in the colon, and in the same case there was about four ounces of chocolate colored urine in the bladder.
+ Transferred to Convict Hulk Royal Saxon,
DECEMBER.
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