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No. 90.

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Hongkong

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1855.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

THE inven, that the HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, this day established, will

HE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS having ceased on the 21st instant be hereafter the only Official Organ of Proclamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.

By Order,

W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.

Victoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1853.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The Subjoined Medical Report by the Colonial Surgeon, for the year 1854, is published for gene- ral information.

Colonial Secretary's Office. Victoria,

Hongkong, 8th June, 1855.

By Order,

COLONIAL SURGEON'S REPORT FOR 1854.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Sanitary problem

Climate, &c.

The nature of the Climate and Topographical description of Hongkong require no Topography and remark, both having been (I presume) fully detailed in former reports; nor is there now any occasion to describe the position of the several Police Stations, with the accommodation of each,-such being already well known to the Authorities.

The Hospital situated at the corner of Graham Street, and for some years past in use, was shortly after my appointment as Colonial Surgeon, removed to the present Building, as I considered that it did not afford the necessary accommodation, and was further deficient in Ventilation and Drainage, all of which essential requisites the present Building possesses.

The prevalent diseases during the Year have been, as usual, Fever and Bowel complaints. The Intermittent Fever of this Colony is most pertinacious in its attack, any individual having once suffered being liable to а re- currence of the disease, until the constitution is completely sapped, and the patient reduced to a state of the most distressing debility. The Remittent Fever is less frequent, but more fatal; it is often the result of the former, but by no means invari- ably so. During the year many cases occurred, but, with the exception of a few fatal ones, the disease was amenable to treatment. During the month of October and November the Fever of the Cold Season (an obscure Remittent) has been unusually prevalent, difficult to check, and the convalescence slow. This class of disease gener- ally lays the foundation of some organic affection of the abdominal Viscera, especially the spleen and the liver, the former of which is almost invariably more or less affected, and that after comparatively mild attacks of the primary disease. Under such cir- cumstances, no perfect recovery can be expected while the patient remains in the Colony.

Hospital.

Fevers.