320
Table IV.-Shewing the RATE of SICKNESS and MORTALITY of the TROOPS serving in HONGKONG
during the Year 1892.
AVERAGE STRENGTH.
ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL.
DEATHS.
AVERAGE DAILY RATE OF SICKNESS.
RATE OF MORTAL- ITY PER 1,000 OF THE STRENGTH.
White. Black. Total. White.
Black. Total.
White. Black.
Total.
White. Black. White. Black.
1,382 988 2,370
1,763
1,081
2,844 16
15
31
83.06 34.37 11.58 15.18
Does not include Officers.
H. F. PATERSON,
Surgeon Colonel, A.M.S., Principal Medical Officer, China and Hongkong.
Table V.-Shewing the ADMISSION and MORTALITY in the GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL during the Year 1892.
DISEASES.
I.-General Diseases.
A. Diseases dependent on Morbid Poisons,—
Sub-Group 1,
>>
2, 3,
"
4,
"
5,
"
·
Europeans.
ADMISSIONS.
Indians.
Asiatics.
Total.
DEATHS.
Europeans.
Indians.
Asiatics.
Total.
48 119
100
2
168
$8.9-
33
17
98
91
310
1
1
3
40
24
232
1
1
1
;
B. Diseases dependent on external agents other than Morbid
Poisons, Sub-Group 1,
**
4
1
1
6
22
"
3, 4,
7
1
10
18
46
2
48
C. Developmental Diseases,
D. Not classified,
4
1
3
8
27
13
18
II.--Local Diseases.
1
Nervous System,
25
6
16
47
1
2
3
Eye, Ear, Nose,
6
13
14
33
4
10
1
Circulatory System,
11
4 15
...
9
10
11
12
Diseases of the
Respiratory, Digestive,
8 Lymphatic,
Thyroid Body,
Supra Renal Capsules, Urinary System,
Generative System,
64
21
76
7
.7**
27 112
20
118
02 107
5
12
65 a
6
9
2 12
13
25
37
2
1
10 42
5
2
2
13
Female Breast,
:
14
Male
1
2
15
Organs of Locomotion,
43
15
90
148
5
•
16
Connective Tissue,
20
9
16
45
17
Skin,
10
18
23
51
1
1
3
5
III.
Poisons,
IV.
Injuries,
37
9
144 190
1.
Surgical Operation, †
Under Observation,
19
14
46
79
Total,..
788
335
592 1,715
23 11
34
68
* Vide III, Poisons. † Table Va,
J. M. ATKINSON, Superintendent.
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