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THE

Zongkong

NEW SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 10TH MAY, 1856.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. I. No. 46.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby ven, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE”

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

No. 57.

.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Appendix to the Report of the Bowring Praya Commission has now been arranged and delivered in to is Office.

Being too voluminous for publication, those interested in its contents will have an opportunity of inspecting it, application to the Colonial Secretary.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 7th May, 1856.

Nv. 38.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,

Considerable misapprehension being understood to exist on the subject of the recent Mortality among the Chinese Population of Victoria, the following Report and Return by the Officiating Registrar-General, are published **: general information.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 7th May, 1856:

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

CENSUS AND REGISTRATION OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 2d May, 1856,

SIR-I have the honor to forward to you, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, a Return collated from reports fur- rabed by the Tepos of the different districts, showing the mortality amongst the Chinese population of the City of Victoria during the. F, Second, and Twenty-four days of the Third Chinese month of the present year.

It would appear from the Tepos' reports, that the mortality in comparison with the population of the districts is not much more con-

a in one portion of the City than another. The district of Taipingshan has a small excess over the other districts.

My enquiries lead me to believe that there is no contagious disease; but that the deaths have chiefly arisen from acute forms of Protary, Ferer, and Ague. I do not remember that at any previous similar period during the past eleven years there has been so great mortality amongst the Chinese population as during the past three months, and this, fully taking into consideration the recent great trase of population.

I visited, on the 27th ultimo, the towns of Aberdeen and Stanley, and most of the Villages on the Island; and the information I emceived leads me to infer that the sanitary state of the inhabitants ja as usual.

With respect to the Agricultural Villages, I may take this opportunity to mention, that I never before saw the ground so fully or in es perfect a state of cultivation as at my last visit.—I have, &è̟,

Honble: W. T. MERCER, Esquire,

C. MAY,

Officiating Registrar General.

Colonial Secretary,

&c., &c., &c.

RETURN SHEWING THE MORTALITY AMONGST THE CHINESE POPULATION IN THE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA, DURING THE PERIODS SPECIFIED.

1ST CHINESE MONTH,

From the 6th February, to 6th March inclurive.

NAME OF DISTRICT.

20 CHINESE MONTH.

From the 7th March, to the 4th April inclusive.

24 DAYS OF 3D CHINESE |

MONTH.

TOTAL.

From the 5th April, to the 28th April inclurior.

Maler.

Fanaler,

Malas.

Females.

Males.

Females.

Haise.

Females.

Two rrihan,

98

51

91

35

79

25

268

111

Shunt-wan (Lower Bazaar),.

38

14

39

16

31

17

108

47

Man-chre Doy

* a-wan (East District),

112 (Central Bazaar),

26

15

22

14

23

11

71

40

16

11

13

7

12

9

41

27

19

8

29

7

14

9

62

24

197

99

194

79

159

71

550

249

799 Grand Total.

C. MAY,

Census and Registration Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d May, 1856.

Officiating Registrar General..