Remittent Fever seems to have been very fatal as out of 134 cases there were nine deaths. Altogether out of 420 cases which Dr. WHARRY classes as Hongkong Fever, there were ten deaths, as against one death out of 406 cases in 1886; out of these ten, one was a European, two were Coloured, and seven Chinese.
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatism sent 38 cases, of which one died.
There were seven cases of opium poisoning, of which two died.
The total number of deaths were eighty-nine, the death rate compared to the total number of admissions being 5.37, the highest yet recorded.
The total amount of fees received from patients during the year was $10,275.68 of this the Board of Trade paid $2,181.75 and the Police $970,75 this is exclusive of $1,788.18 fees from patients in Lunatic Asylum which amount in previous years has been included in the Civil Hospital accounts.
Mr. WATSON the Assistant Apothecary arrived in the Colony on September 25th and forthwith commenced his duties.
Mr. Crow the Senior Apothecary and Analyst is temporarily performing the duties of Sanitary Superintendent.
I have to thank these officers and particularly Mr. ROGERS, the Steward, for the assistance they have rendered me in becoming acquainted with the working of the Establishment.
In conjunction with the Colonial Surgeon I have made certain alterations in the existing rules in order to keep the Chinese attendants more under control.
In conclusion I wish to point out the necessity there is for an assistant Resident Medical Officer. In a Hospital like this in which so many of the cases are acute and so many accidents are admitted, and in which, as I gather from the previous reports, the greatest stress of work falls in the Summer months, the work is too great for one Medical Officer; one cannot always be on duty; under the existing arrangements it is impossible to leave the Hospital for even a couple of hours without a feeling of anxiety that something may happen during one's absence; if there was another Resident Medical Officer, there would always be one on duty.
My report is necessarily incomplete from the late period of the year in which I took over the charge of the Hospital.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN MITFORD ATKINSON, M.B., Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital.
Dr. PH. B. C. AYRES,
Colonial Surgeon.
Year.
Number of examinations.
Gonorrhoea.
Leucorrhoea.
1885.
12,454
67168 38
1886.
12,407
111155 51
Enclosure 2.
Lock Hospital's Returns.
SYPHILIS.
Primary.
Hard Chancre
And Cutane.
ous
Erup tion,
1
+++
93
40
367 12,087
1
4 33 I
378 12,029
1887.
11,496
28 4233* 1
3 2
21
:
12911,367
REMARKS.
* 1 Woman was found with soft sore, but was not detained.
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