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HOSPITAL DEATHS.

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In 1892 out of a total of 4,906 deaths for the whole Colony, the Hospital deaths amounted to:-

Tung Wa Hospital,

Government Civil Hospital,.

Alice Memorial Hospital,. Royal Naval Hospital, Military Hospital

Gun Lascar Hospital, Peak Hospital,

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or 24.99 per cent. of the total mortality for the year.

Total,

.1,103 55

28

6

30

4

.1,226

Table VII gives the number of patients under treatment in the Tung Wa Hospital during 1892 and shows that the total number under treatment in the Hospital during the year was 2,566; the total discharged 1,351: the total of deaths 1,103 or 44.95 per cent. of the total number admitted. The out-patients during the year were:-

Male, Female,

Total,

151,158

78,313

.229,471

MORTALITY DURING LAST SIX YEARS.

The following table shows the number of deaths and the death rate per 1,000 during the past six

years:

Estimated Population.

1887.

1888.

1889.

1890,

1891.

1892.

British and Foreign,...

10,552

10,692

10,832

10,972

10,494

10,590

Chinese,.

.175,410

179,530

183,650

187,770

214,320

221,072

Whole,

.185,962

190,222

194,482

198,742

224,814

231,662

Deaths,

5,317

6,034

4,597

4,553

5,374

4,906

Death rate per 1,000.

British and Foreign,....

23.31

23.28

17.54

17.13

18.20

17.37

Chinese,

28.90

32.22

24.00

23.25

24.18

21.36

Whole,

28.59

31.72 . 23.64

22.90

23.90

21.18

REGISTERED CAUSES OF DEATH AND MEDICAL CERTIFICATES,

In Table V, Return B, will be found the causes of death. Of the total number of deaths, 482 or 9.82 per cent. have been certified to by medical certificate or by the Magistrate performing the duties of Coroner.

In Table IX will be found a report which I forwarded to the Government last year containing my

views as to how more reliable returns of the real causes of death might be secured and what steps might be taken to provide the poorer classes of the Colony with the benefits of Western medical assistance and medicine should they desire to avail themselves of them.

VACCINATION ORDINANCE, 5 OF 1890.

A reference to Table VI will show that, during the year, 1,060 notices calling upon persons to have their children vaccinated were served and that 1,176 certificates of successful vaccination were received.

There was only one prosecution for failure to produce the certificate required under this Ordinance, in which a conviction was obtained.

ORDINANCE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF BOOKS PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN HONGKONG (10 of 1888.).

During 1892, 29 books were published as compared with 29 in 1891. been published in the Government Gazette.

REGISTRATION OF HOUSEHOLDERS.

Lists of these have already

Under the law regulating the registration of householders, the actual tenant or occupant of the whole of any building or tenement in a district of Victoria, or, in cases where there is no such person, the immediate landlord of the whole of a building or tenement (persons other than Chinese not being