sense and appreciation of the benefit to themselves of these examinations. Their decision speaks well for the way the examinations have been conducted and the fact that the women treated should voluntarily have expressed a desire for a continuation of the practice and that no repugnance has been shown by them, proves that kind and civil treatment has not been misspent in their case.
These voluntary examinations have been now going on for over eight months and up to the date of my forwarding this Report I have had no complaint from any of the women of the treatment received by them from the nurses or attendants at the Hospital.
Table XVa. shows the number of admissions to the Lock Hospital and average number of days' stay in Hospital for the last thirty years. The admissions have varied between 411 and 44 in the last fourteen years as compared with 722 and 124 in the previous years. The average number of days treated has varied between 21 and 12 in the last fourteen years as compared with 13 and 18 in the previous years. This gives a good idea of the decrease in the extent and severity of the disease of late
years.
The daily average number in Hospital for 1887 was 5, and the longest number of days detention for any one case was 90 days. The average detention for the year was 13.9 days.
The total number of examinations made was 12,223. Of these 144 cases were found diseased, or about 1 per cent. Only six of these suffered from constitutional disease. The number of women detained in Hospital last year was 144 as compared with 401 in 1886.
Table E shews the number of admissions to the Military, Naval, Police, and Civil Hospitals from the various types of venereal disease. The admissions to the Military and Naval Hospitals are about the same as in 1886. There is a very large increase among the Police for which I am unable to account, as neither the Military, Naval or Civil Hospitals show a similar increase of disease contracted in the Colony.
Table E 2 shows the number of cases of venereal disease affecting the constitution among the admissions to the Naval Hospital; 8 cases were contracted in the Colony as compared with 20 in 1886. Table E 3 shews the same for the Military Hospital 39 cases were contracted in the Colony as compared with 41 in 1885. There were 10 cases admitted to Hospital from among the Police and 11 to the Civil Hospital.
However, taking every thing into consideration the type of disease from this source is for the most part of the mildest, and both the Military and Naval Authorities bear witness that no other British station shows such freedom from venereal disease of a bad type as Hongkong,
HEALTH OF THE COLONY.
ERRATUM.
At page 716 of the Supplement to the Gazette of the 14th instant, for the two last lines of the first paragraph under the heading, Health of the Colony, read,-
"In 1887 the deaths were 108 as compared with 103 in 1886 and 99 in 1885. of deaths to the population is 3.55, an increase on the average of the past 10 years. has been steadily increasing for the last five years."
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17
1873,
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1874,
1
17
1875,
1
18
1876,
1877,
4
10
VIR4R
25
26
24
14
24
27
9
1878,
29
1879,
21
14
38
1880,
12
10
24
1881,
17
10
29
1882,
10
13
13
37
1883,
1
9
9
19
1884,
77
12
1885,
1886,
8
1887,
10
2046
23
19
46
18
25
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