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The numbers of admissions and deaths in Hospital for the past ten years are as follows:-

Admissions.

415

1877.

ya

1878,

1879,

1880,

*

1881,.. 1882.

1883,

1884...

Deaths.

950

49

.1,289

50

..1,071

55

...1,055

44

..1,236

49

.1,458

68

...1,502

70

..1,354

50

.1,510

76

..1,623

79

1885. 1886,.

The percentage of deaths to admissions was 4.86 a trifle above the average of the last ten years. Sixteen of the deaths were from injuries received.

SMALL POX HOSPITAL.

Eleven cases were admitted into the Small Pox Hospital, of whom one female died, most of the cases were of a mild type.

Table VIIa shews the number and nationality of the patients.

This Hospital is used in the summer months for Cholera cases, none occurred this year.

PUBLIC MORTUARY.

Table VIII shews number of dead bodies brought in for examination during the different months of the year. The total this year was 134, of these 43 were children.

The recommendations I made last year that there should be a resident Post Mortem attendant at the Mortuary has been sanctioned.

VICTORIA GAOL.

The following figures give the number of admissions and the daily average number of prisoners for the past ten years. There is a very considerable increase in both cases this year:-

Total No, admitted.

Daily average No.

to Gaol.

of Prisoners.

1877,

.3,964

395.22

1878,

.3,803

519.22

1879,

.3,665

576.13

1880,

..3,530

575.25

1881,

.4,150

666.00

1882,

.3,498

622.00

1883,

.3,486

542.15

1884,

4,023

552.00

1885,

...3,610

530.00

1886.

.....4,600

674.00

The above figures show an increase of nearly one thousand prisoners as compared with last year, with an increase in the daily average of 144.

Table IX shews the number of admissions to the Gaol Hospital, the diseases, and number of deaths. There were thirteen deaths this year, two from Apoplexy, two from Heart disease, two from Dysentery, two from inflammation of the Bowels, two from general Debility, two from Suicide, and one constitutional Syphilis of some years standing.

Table X shews the number of cases treated in their cells, and the diseases treated.

Table XI shews the rate of sickness and mortality in the Gaol. The sickness is considerably less than last year, but there is a considerable increase in the deaths, yet, the rate of sickness and mortality both to total and average is much less than last year.

Table XIa shews the cases admitted to Hospital on the first medical examination, and the diseases they were suffering from.

Table XI shews the number of Opium smokers admitted to Gaol, their weight on admission and for four weeks after.

Table XIe shews the number of Opium smokers admitted to Hospital and the diseases they were suffering from..

There were no cases of any particular interest. The dietary of the Gaol has been reduced, so they don't fatten up so much as they used, but they are none the worse for the deprivation of their Opium, although the habit is entirely ignored, and they get no treatment unless they are suffering from some bodily complaint.