Fevers
286
Table XVc shews the number of men treated for venereal disease in the Military Naval Police and Civil Hospitals and the average number of men in Garrison and Port of different classes per month.
Table XVd shews the character of disease found amongst the women.
Table XVe 2 shews the number of Naval Seamen who have contracted constitutional disease in Hongkong, which is only one.
Table XVe shews the number of Military that have contracted constitutional disease in Hong- kong which is 14.
The difference between the Naval and Military men is explained by the Seamen in most cases going to the registered houses, whilst the Military have more opportunities of becoming acquainted with sly prostitutes.
In 1884 no Naval Seamen contracted constitutional disease in Hongkong, but among the Military there were 28 cases, which this year have been reduced to one half.
Two members of the Police Force, both Europeans, contracted constitutional syphilis. In one of these cases, however, it was contracted in the execution of his duty. The constable, a man of very good character, while defending himself in a scuffle with a number of seamen, hit one man on the mouth inflicting a slight wound on his own knuckle from contact with the man's teeth.
The man struck must have been suffering from syphilitic sores in the mouth, for the wound received by the Constable developed into a chancre and ultimately secondary symptoms of a very severe form showed themselves. The Government, I am happy to say, has compensated the Constable for his injury as far as lies in its power. Only one case of secondary Syphilis was received into the Civil Hospital from among the Seamen in Port. The working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, both among the men and women, may be considered as very satisfactory.
HEALTH OF THE COLONY.
Table XVI shews the rate of mortality amongst the European and American Residents in Hong- kong. The percentage to the number of residents for 1885, is 3.25, the highest percentage for the last ten years. It would have been less than 2 per cent but for the deaths from cholera among the Military.
I give below the Tables of the death rates for the past thirteen years I have been in the Colony among the Europeans and Chinese, as registered in Hongkong, from diseases which may arise from filth poison.
DEATHS AMONG EUROPEANS. (BRITISH AND FOREIGN.)
I
1873. 1874.1875. 1876, 1877. 1878. 1879. 1880. | 1881.1882. 1883. 1884. 1885.
Fevers
YEAR.
Enteric,
1
1
5
3
3
2
10
1
7
Simple Continued,.
6
15
21
12
17
13
9
11
Typhus,.........
2
4
~
1
:
1
Diarrhoea,
17
17
18
14
10
14
10
10
13
Cholera,.....
→
:
12
19
Totals,......... 25
26
24
24
27 29
38
24
29
37
19
23
46
i
YEAR.
DEATHS AMONG CHINESE.
1873. 1874. | 1875. | 1876. | 1877. 1878. 1879. 1880. 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884. 1885.
94
Enteric,
12
125
31
145
89
Simple Continued,
96
46 291 343
370
116 309 438 679 262 132 105
481 733 373 168 71 571 600
755
Typhus,..........
16
:
8
33
21
38
2
Diarrhoea,
195 231
288 259 311
701 608 348 435 465
660
801
561
Cholera,........
Vomiting & Purging
Totals,............ 319
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176
402 612 696
834
1,304 1,478 1,030 1,079 1,215
1496 1,0351,604
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