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If after a year's trial it is found that the services of the Licentiates are appreciated and that they have more work to do than they can overtake, the advisability of extending the scheme and increasing the staff on the lines recommended by the Colonial Surgeon might be then considered.

Enclosure I.

Total Chinese deaths, 1891, Victoria,

23

Certificates,....

..4,075

....

.1,499 or 36.78 per cent.

.....2,576 or 63.21 per cent.

Without Certificates,

of which 1,251 or 30.70 per cent. were deaths in the French and Italian Convents.

Certificates from European Doctors including Government Civil Hospital

and Alice Memorial Hospital,....

Magistrates Inquiry Notes,

??

Burial Orders,

Certificates from Tung Wa Hospital,..

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"

other Chinese Doctors,

.....

Enclosure II.

ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL STATISTICS.

OUT PATIENTS.

New Cases.

IN PATIENTS.

New Cases,

1887,

...7,685

533

1888,

.7,090

544

1889,

..6,726

569

1890,

.........8,356

771

1891,

.8,929

848

46

36

229

1,173

15

1,499