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PUBLIC MORTUARY.

Table VIII shows the number of bodies brought to the Mortuary for examination, and the cause of death.

This year 146 bodies were brought in: Europeans. 10, Chinese 130, other nationalities 6.

Of these 55 were found to have died of disease, 24 accidental deaths, 21 suicidal, 10 homicidal.

VICTORIA GAOL.

The following Table gives the number of admissions to the Gaol and the daily average number of prisoners for the past ten years :-

Total No. admitted to Gaol.

Daily average No. of Prisoners.

666.00 ...622.00 .542.15

1881,

..4,150..

1882,

..3,498

1883,

.3.486..

1884,

..4,023..

552.00

1885,

.3,610..

.530.00

1886,

.4,600..

..674.00

1887,

.4,302.

..584.00

1888,

..3.627...

..531.00

1889,

..3,705.

.581.00

1890,

.3,444.

...566.00

There is a considerable decrease in the number of admissions, 3,444, compared with 3,705 admis- sions in 1889, with a decrease of 15 in the daily average of prisoners in the Gaol. The mendicant class and petty offences furnishing the chief course of admission.

Table IX shows the number of prisoners admitted to Hospital.

Table XI shows the rate of sickness and mortality among the prisoners. There were 362 admis- sions to Hospital as compared with 244 in 1889, and six deaths, there were two other deaths occur- ring in the cells, 2 Chinese committed suicide by hanging.

Table XIA shows the number of Opium Smokers admitted during the year, their ages, the length of time they have controlled the habit, the daily consumption of the drug, their weights on admission and during the first month of detention. The habit is entirely ignored, and no special treatment given

for a cure.

LUNATIC ASYLUM.

There were 12 patients admitted during the year: 9 Europeans, 2 Coloured and 1 Chinese.

TUNG-WA HOSPITAL.

The number of cases admitted in this Hospital during the year was 2,260, of these 1,022 died, of the admissions 254 were in a moribund condition.

tion.

No cases were admitted to the Small-pox Wards of this Hospital.

2,515 Vaccinations were performed successfully by the Public Vaccinator attached to this Institu-

The number of out-patients treated was 173,720.

LOCK HOSPITAL.

This establishment is still in the two houses hired for the purpose pending the completion of the building in progress for the Government Civil Hospital Nursing Staff, &c. as already described.

The rent of these building cost $840 a year, besides very considerable expenses to render them at all suitable for the purposes, for incessant repairs, for redrainage, &c., &c., so I shall be very glad when this is removed to the New Hospital which has so long been built and used for other purposes for which, as I have described, it is not at all appropriate.

I regret that the Matron was absent on leave this year at the same time as the Steward of the Hospital was absent on leave. The consequence of which the table of attendances for this year are not quite reliable, many mistakes were unavoidably made by people entirely new to the work. Mrs. FooRD, who was Acting Matron, was most zealous and willing in the performance of her duties, cannot in any way be held responsible and I have much pleasure in recording that there were no complaints. Her little patients always being in good humour and satisfied with her kind treatment of them.

The attendance has been better at the Voluntary examinations and I think even better than has been recorded.

The following Table shows the attendance, deficit in attendance, amount of disease, and number of registered women for the last six years, that is, two years before the abolition of the Contagious