1086
per cent
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
1843, amounted to £12,063, and the expenditure anticipated and met by a note subjoined to the have been no deaths during January and February, with the exception of one woman who died in chargeable thereon to £11.399, leaving unexpend- Return. “This Return," observes the Auditor childbirth. The months of July and October shew the greatest mortality, still we are not to con- ed the trifling balance of £664.
General, comprises the expenditure strictly belong sider the month in which the greatest mortality appears, to be the most unhealthy, as the cases that But the Crown Revenues of the yerr 1844 am- ing to Port Phillip, as already given in the printed prove fatal have generally been taken ill in the previous months; and this statement is besides cor- ounted to £11,160, and the expenditure chargeable statements for 1843 and 1844, submitted to the roborated by what is observed in Britain, where nearly 100 more die of Phthisis in Spring and thereon to £26,518, being an excess of expendi- Legislative Council. Several other expenses have, Summer than in Antumn and Winter, and yet these are certainly not the most unhealthy periods. tura over revenue, of £17,358 or more than 155 however, been incurred for that district, which do The most unhealthy months in this Island or rather the months in which the most fatal diseases
not admit of being readily stated with any degree have their origin, are July, August, and September, the three hottest months. The excess for the two years was £16,695, or of exactitude; such as the cost of horses, and equip
Io Table No. L-The most prevalent diseases are clearly shown to be Ague, Diarrhea, more than 71 per cent.
ments for the Mounted Police: of clothing, stores, Remittent Fever, and Dysentery. But though Agus stands at the head of the list in respect to the and stationery forwarded from the depot of the number of cases, yet by looking over the causes of death as laid down under the head of "Remarks' Colonial Storekeeper, the proportion of the ex- is the Table No. L it will be seen, that while out of 27 deaths that occurred last year, there were B penses of the Colonial Secretary and other depart of Fever and 9 fatal cases of Dysentery, thus proving the latter to have been most fatal. Now by ments in Sydney, and of the Colonial Agent Gereferting to the Colonial Surgeon's report for the six months ending December 1844, it will be found neral in England, employed in services connected that fever was then the most fatal malady. The reason for this change cannot at present be satis with Port Phillip; and various other expenses of a factorily accounted for. similar nature."
Nov.)
It will doubtless be urged by the Separationists, that although there was an excess of expenditure avith regard to Crown Revenue, yet with regard to the General Revenue the reverse was the fact The same fact would doubtless be found to exist in the debtor and creditor account of the county of Cumberland, and other parts of the colony. But the plea of the querulous Port Phillippinas is well
Sydney Herald, 22
REPORTS BY THE COLONIAL SURGEON FOR 1845. TABLE 1-AD Abstract of Sickness and Death among the Civil Government Officers &c., in the Island of Hongkong, from 1st January to 31st December, 1845.
1815.
MONTHS
Govt. Oflicers.
Police &e,
Prisoners
No. on "No." No, on] No, ¡No; on] No. Sick of Sick of Sick of Ther deaths list, deaths list doaths
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32.
2
7
0
REMARKS.
A Chinese feinate prisoner died from puerperal manía.
An Overseer of Road died of Gastric fever, One Chinese Prisoner died of ulcers.
do. from smoking opium.
f One Policeman died of chronie diaries in the Mili- tary Hospital. An Overseer of Roads died of fever.
Jautary.
February,
March,
QU 35 0
5
1
#
0 26
0
6
0
14
0 11
1
7
0
The wife of Policeman died of dysentery.
April.
13
0:
31
1
7
2
{ Do. do.
May,
21
June,
15 0
32
July.
14 0 49 2 m
3
August,
11
દ
44
Semptember, 5
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决
12
2
2
9
帶
25
2. 3
0
0
69
**
13
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Two British Prisoners died, the one from Apoplexy the other from Dysentery. Ap Overseer of Roads died of fever.
Two Chinese Prisoners died from Ulcers, One do. do from smoking opium, One Policeman died of dysentery. One sailor found on the street in a state of intoxication & died in jail,
One Chinaman found on the street in a state of des- titution and died in custody. One Policeman died of Remittent Fever in 18th R. I. Regt. Hospital
Government Officer of the Supreme Court died of Low Remittent Ferer, one Policeman died of Ab scess in the Liver another of Dysentery,
(One Policeman died of Remittent fever. A woman (formerly a soldier's wife,) and ber child died of Dysentery, A. Constable died of Dysentery. A Po liceman died at Stanley, not treated by Colonial Surgeon, and disease unknown.
Oac Policeman died of Jaundice.
October,
5
November,
December,
8
68 0
1 13
0
0 43
00
8
9
The wife of a Policeman died of Dysentery.
Total, 134
1 453 18 107
$
TABLE IL-The Actual number of Cases and different Diseases among the Government Officers, &c., in each Month throughout the Year 1845.
Disences.
Ague
Remittent Fever
Diarrhoea.
Dysentery. Venereal Discose
Onite Ophthalmia Inft. of Knce Infl. of Breast Paronychia
Abscess
Dropsy.
Neuralgia
Insanity.
Paralysis.
Delirium Trethens-
Apoplexy.
Coup de Soleil
Cynancho Tonsiltaria
Catarrh
Parulis
Dyspha
Enteritis Dyspepsia Worma Constipation Hæmorrhoids Liver Diseases
Splentis. Nephritis Uterine Disease-
Parturition -
Rhonmatism
Periostitis
Cutaneous Discases Ulcers -
Wounds & Accidents
Effects of Smaking
Opium-
Diaphragmitie Violation- Intoxication Destitution
January.
February.
March.
07 13 * * M* * TOW** ************====0 10 10 10 10
8
6
12
August.
September,
October.
In Table No. III-We see the number and proportion of deaths among the prisoners, which shews the mortality in the prison to be very small, being about 13 per cent. The chief causes of the mortality are Ulcers. These occur among the lowest class of the Chinese, and are owing to their unexcitable or non inflamatory temperament, their spare diet, consisting of rice and salt fish, their filthy habits, and a wish on the part of the patients to prevent the Ulcers healing so as to avoid work, These Ulcers are often induced by the clairs on their limbs, which may be said to act as the imme. diate exciting cause. Epidemics have been unknown in the Jnif.
In Table No. IV,--We find the deaths among the Government Officers to be small, only amounting to 1 in 60 of the whole, that is 1) per cent, or a little more than I per cent among all the cases that have been under treatment in 1845. But in the Police Department, including Overseers of Roads, we find a much greater mortality, being 1 in 14 of the whole number of persons, that is 17 per cent, or among those who have been under treatment, 1 in 19,5, that is, about 54 per cent. This mortality is owing to the constant exposure to the vicissitudes of the climate, the intemperate habits of the individuals, the deleterious nature of the spirits they imbibe, and further, to the Road Overseers living in temporary dwellings erected on the damp soil.
Table No. V.-Shews the European and Portuguese population in Hongkong for 1843, and the number and porportion of deaths to the population, which we discover to be 1 in 18-3 or nearly 5 per cent,
The past year appears to have been much more healthy among the civil community then the years previous, which is to be accounted for by the improved" state of the Colony, improvements in draining, in roads, and in dwellings more adapted to the country, also from the deleterious nature of the climate being better known, and therefore more care taken to avoid the causes which promote disease; and it is hoped that disease will now continue to diminish as the improvement of the plico increases.
Victoria, Hongkong, January 17th, 1846.
F. DILL, M.D, Colonial Hospital Surgeon.
REVENUE of the Colony of Hongkong, received during the Year 1815,
5-
d. £
d.
TAXES. DUTIES,
Police Assessment, Two and half per cent on goods sold
by Public Auction,
529
6
301
8
10
•
RENTE.
}
On land for Buildings, Arrears of 1845,
Do. do.-
do.
1844, Do. do. on account of the year 1845,
630 6.122 15 5,318
11
1
14
1
12,007
Deposits by Purchasers of Crown Land, From Villages,
76
14
245
For Stone Quarries,
437
H
For Fishery
17
Of markets, Arrears of
1844,
99
13
4
Do
for the year,
1845,
1,463
14
7
1.563
27
Of Buildings,
260
(For Opium Farm.
Auctioneers,
2,384
15
Selling Wines and Spirits,
1,154
7
9
09
during the year
LICENSES.
Salt Broke,
226
0
10
Serangs,
11
15
}!
Billiard Room,
13
13
10
Pawnbrokers,
404
· 19
3
4,454 19.
10
On Leases and Deed Registry,
445 · 19
8
60
FEES.
For sundries, as signatures, &c. &c
115
0
G
For registering boats,
108
4
14
51
From Supreme and Polico Courts.
629
3
7 1,207 7
3
36
3
FINES.
From Supreme and Police Courto
744
14
Forfeitures
20
Waif to the Qneen,
15
9
Surcharges recovered,
02
10
Refunds,
76
2
Charts and Port-regulations, Sailing Letters, and Passes, Nett Proceeds of Sundries sold by Pubblic Auction,
41
0
- 14
13
3
Total Revenue, £ sterling : 22242
8
Victoria, Hongkong, January, 9th, 1846.
· FREDERICK W. C, BRUCE.
Colonial Secretary.
November.
December,
EXPENDITURE of the Colony of Hongkong, for the Year ended 31st, Dec. 1845.
£
Total
51
22
#1
43
11
02
CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
2
36
Salaries,
Ordinary Contingencies,
Special Disbursements,
12,673
7
1,016
.10
796
19
14,387
16
ECCLESIASTICAL ESTABLISHMENT,
Salaries,
710
18
2
29
Ordinary Contingencies,
41
15
6
703
23
2
Revenue Departments,
Salaries,
5,043
16
2
Ordinary Contingencies,
657
∙17.
6
Special Disbursements,
177
17
JEDICIAL DEPARTMENT.
31
501
Sataries,
6,300
Ordinary Contingencies,
742
13
9
Special Diabursaineola,
201
10
0 7,507
13
Number of desika Ter 1 is 04.43
POLICE DEPARTMENTS,
Sakarise,.
4,331
噶
Ordinary Contingencies, Special Disbursements,
5,311
10
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
TABLE BL-The Number of Triondas and the proportion of Deaths in the Year 1515. Europeans Indians
Tseal symber
40
Parngtose 10
ASI
TABLE IV.~The Number, Proportion of Deaths, de of all those under the Medical Superintendence of tie
Colonel Surgeon during the Year 1945.
Pregation of densba is recoveries from
knew.
The whole No. The #bule The Nunder Proportion of desika
of Permits No. of Cesz
sa wide riber
Government Officers
66
$1
Lia Co
Police, Wires and Cait
}ia 1
Overseer of Roads
Prisoners
1 in 16.5
dren of Pelled and
$ is 7.39
* The difference between this Tulle and the the these in owing to one præmir mãe the4 la the Samtea's for
fatal boc bông included in the Tatto alore,
TABLE V-The Population of Hongkong and the Properties of Darcha during the Year 1945.
Popalatoa
Nember of Population Nomber Dans Paper of Deere
731
40 REMARKS.
Europeans, and Macao and Goa Portegusso
Ja Table No. 1.-We discover that the list of sich in smaller in March than in zay other mouth throughout the year, while on the other hand it is grater in November, although it came be recollected that it is not actually the west vabazilly code. The reason then moured for the th cressed sickness in November, is the curcumstance of the seater of Lubans, who waly str most from the setting in off the bow range of temposure a fat time, It will be cherred the thir
700
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67 17
10
5
7
E
30/04
0
19
#
501
7
Salar Ordinary Chatingencies, Specal DisbartenDSATS,
Public Works and Baillings,
Cooperations for removing Home and Claring Ground,
86.720
Total Expenditure for 1945, Enterling
Victoria, Bongkang, Janasey 9th, 1846
FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE, Colonial Secretary.
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