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The following Table gives the admissions and deaths in this Hospital for the past ten years :-
Admissions.
1882,
..1,458.
Deaths. ......68
1883,
..1,502..
..70
1884,
..1,354......
..50
1885,
1,510......
..76
1886,
1,623.
79
1887,
.1,656.....
.89
1888,
1,772......
.80
1889,
..1,793.
...77
1890,
..1,957.
98
1891,
.1,867
.84
The Superintendent's Report is a very full one, has been very carefully considered, and shows, together with the appendix he has given, how earnestly he has worked to render the establishment of which he has charge thoroughly efficient.
SMALL-POX HOSPITAL AND EPIDEMIC HULK HYGEIA.
There were seventeen cases of small-pox treated in this Hospital and the Hulk Hygeia, of which only one died. The Hygeia is rather an expensive investment. She was only used for the first time in the autumn and has already cost a considerable sum for repairs though she was only launched in the beginning of the summer, and to make her in a fit condition she needs another large expenditure. She has to be anchored about three miles off the town for safety and even under the lee of Stone Cutters' Island in a gale last year she drifted some distance from her moorings. If she was stationed nearer the town in the event of bad weather she would have to be towed into safe quarters and towed back again, that would be a great expense and there is absolutely no site within the Colony. Now that Stone Cutters' Island is in the occupation of the Military that can be used for the purpose of a Quarantine Station.
Table VIIA shows the number, nationality, and duration of the cases of small-pox treated, those marked with an * were treated on board the Hygeia in charge of Dr. LowSON. Lowson.
PUBLIC MORTUARY.
Table VIII gives the return of dead bodies sent to the Mortuary for examination, The total number was 138,
Of these 52 were found to have died from disease, 69 were accidental deaths and 17 suicides; there were none sent in this year homicidal deaths.
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.
.622.00 ...542.15
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,
1891,
.3,444..... .5.231.
...566.00
......507.00
This Table shows that there was a larger number of admissions than in any of the previous nine years, an increase compared with 1890 (which has the smallest number recorded in the past ten years) of 1,787. The Opium and Gambling Ordinances are responsible for the greater portion of this increase of admissions. It is, however, satisfactory to note that in spite of the increase of admissions the daily average number of prisoners in Gaol is considerably less than all the previous nine years, showing a large diminution in absolute crime and the very large proportion of short-term prisoners. Opium-smoking and gambling will never be eradicated from the Chinese by law. If on the same
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