LOCK HOSPITAL.
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This name is a misnomer now, it had better be altered to Women's Hospital for Venereal Disease. There is no Lock now, the patients that can leave their beds during the day go out to visit their friends, those who come into Hospital and are confined to their beds receive visits from their friends. None of them are compelled to stay in Hospital against their will.
Under the Lock system when the Contagious Diseases Ordinance was enforced the women of the different houses were notified by the Inspectors to attend at the Bospital on certain dates and the Inspector and his Interpreter were there to see that they did attend. Now, they attend when they please receiving no notification. No Police are allowed at the Hospital. The Matron keeps the record of those that attend and the women are all well aware that there is no compulsion in the matter.
Last year, 314 women attended Hospital as compared with 276 in 1891. 12,215 examinations were made. 57 women were admitted to Hospital. There is an increase in the number of women who came to Hospital this year, 38 more than last year, a decrease in the number of examinations made of 498 as compared with 1891. There were 12,215 voluntary submissions to examination. If these 314 women had been under compulsory examination, the lowest total of examinations made would have been 16,330 probably over 18,000 and we should have had considerably more than 100 patients in Hospital.
Many of the women are half-casts and speak English well. I can always find fluent interpreters among them when wanted, all of them can speak Pidgin-English more or less well, some of them speak several Continental languages.
Amongst the Military though there is an increase in the number of venereal cases generally, the number that contracted constitutional disease was 58 as compared with 82 in 1891.
In the Police there was a decrease of general venereal disease and of the constitutional form 3 cases as compared with 5 in 1891.
In the Government Civil Hospital, the number of venereal cases show a small decrease, the number of cases of constitutional disease was 15 as compared with 12 in 1891.
HEALTH OF THE COLONY.
The percentage of deaths among the Foreign Residents is slightly higher this year being 1.79 as compared with 1.36 in 1891, but is very much lower than any of the previous years. See Table XVI.
A glance at the two following tables for the European and Chinese communities shows a great improvement every year owing to improved sanitation of the Colony.
DEATHS AMONG EUROPEANS (BRITISH AND FOREIGN).
FEVERS.
VOMITING
YEARS.
DIARRHEA. Cholera, AND
TOTAL.
Enteric. Simple
PURGING.
Typhus.
Continued.
1873,
6
17
25
1874,
1
4
17
26
1875,
18
24
1876,
I
14
24
1877,
5
10
27
1878,
9
29
1879,
21
14
38
1880,
1
12
10
24
1881,
2
17
10
29
1882,
10
13
13
37
1883,
1
9.
9
19
1884,
7
4
12
23
1885,
11
19
46
1886,
8.
18
1887,
10
1888,
4
16
1889,
3
10
1890,
1891,
1
1892,
1
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25
5
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2
25
50
16
12
15
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