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VI.-HOSPITAL AND NURSING STAFF,

19. Mr. ROBERT WHITE, Junior Wardmaster, dismissed on 13th March, was succeeded by Mr. SAMUEL PEPPER who was seconded to this Departinent for six months from the Police. (C.S.O. No. 512/92.)

Miss M. A. THOMPSON (Sister MARY) resigned on the 25th March, and was succeeded by Miss G. BROOKES (Sister ANNIE). (C.S.O. No. 772/92.)

Mr. ROGERS, Steward, mentioned in my last Report as being on leave, resigned on 31st March on pension, after 12 years' service, and was succeeded by Mr. CHAPMAN.

Mrs. SIMMONS, Nurse to the European Lunatic Asylum, resigned on the 18th April on pension, after 17 years' service, and was succeeded by Miss WALKER (Sister CAROLINE). (C.S.O. No. 772/92.)

Miss MACKINTOSH (Sister CATHERINE) was away on leave from 7th May to 18th June.

I have much pleasure in recording that in August this Sister passed the second Government Examination in the Cantonese dialect with great credit.

Dr. Lowson was away on leave from July 7th to September 9th, and again from 20th September to October 19th. It is with much thankfulness that I record his marvellous escape from the sad disaster of the wreck of the P. & O. S.S. Bokhara.

It is my agreeable duty to record my appreciation of the able assistance afforded me by the several members of the Hospital Staff and of their attentiveness to the work of the Institution.

VII-WORK DONE DURING THE YEAR.

20. Attached to this Report are the following tables :—

GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.

I.-Shewing the admissions into and deaths in the Government Civil Hospital during each

month of the year, of the Police.

II.—Shewing the rate of sickness and mortality in the Police Force during the year. III.—Police return of admissions to Hospital from each district during the year.

V.-General return of the sick treated in the Hospital.

Va.-Surgical operations performed during the year.

Vb.-Zymotic Diseases, sub-group 1.

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Vd.-Diagram shewing number of cases of Malarial Fever occurring amongst the Members

of the Police Force admitted in each month of the year.

Ve.-Zymotic Diseases, sub-group 3.

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VI.-Shewing the rate of mortality in the Government Civil Hospital during the last 10

years.

VII.-Shewing the admissions into and deaths in the Government Civil Hospital during

each month of last year.

VIIa. The aggregate monthly number of patients visited in the Hospital daily for the last

three years.

VIIb-Table of admissions into and deaths in the Lunatic Asylums during the year. VIIC.-Table of admissions into and deaths in the Small-pox Hospital and Epidemic Hulk

Hygeia during the year.

21. The total number of cases treated during the year was 7,783, as against 8,698 in 1891; of these 6,068 were out-patients.

22. The number of in-patients during the year was 1,715, a decrease of 152 as compared with that of the previous year.

The total number of deaths was 68, of these 27 were in a moribund condition when admitted, 23 dying within 24 hours, and 4 within 48 hours of their admission.

23. The average daily number in the Hospital was 78.8, and the percentage of deaths to total treated 3.96, as against 4.49 in 1891.

24. Of the total number of in-patients 163 were females, an increase of 39 on that of the previous year. 14 of these were obstetric cases as against 6 in 1891.

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