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HEALTH OF THE COLONY.

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Table XVI shews the rate of mortality among the foreign residents in Hongkong for the past ten years. There is again a rise in the percentage of deaths, it being 2.22 as compared with 1.79 in 1892, and 1.36 in 1891. But it compares favourably with the preceding seven years. Still the slow but steady rise in the past three years must be looked upon with suspicion.

The following two tables shew the number of deaths among the European and Chinese commun- ities from diseases that may be attributed to filth.

DEATHS AMONG EUROPEANS (BRITISH AND FOREIGN).

FEVERS.

VOMITING

YEARS.

DIARRHEA. CHOLERA. AND

TOTAL.

PURGING.

Enteric.

Simple Continued. Typhus.

1873,

1874,

1875,

1

1876,

1

6459.

2

17

25

4

17

26

+

18

24

14

24

1877,

5

Þ

10

27

1878,

3

15

9

29

1879,

21

14

38

1880,

12

1

10

24

1881,

17

10

29

1882,

10

13

1

18

37

1883,

9

9

19

1884,

7

12

28

1985,

7

11

9

19

46

1886,

8

5

18

1887,

10

6

25

1888,

16

25

50

1889,

10

1

16

1890,

4

12

+

1891,

4

5

15

1892,

1

6

7

1893,

5

11

17

Choleraic Diarrhea 1.

DEATHS AMONG CHINESE,

FEVERS.

VOMITING

YEARS.

DIARRHEA. CHOLERA. AND

TOTAL.

PURGING.

Enteric.

Simple Continued.

Typhus.

1873,

12

96

16

195

1874,

125

46

231

319 402

1875,

31

291

288

612

...

...

1876,

94

343

259

696

1877,

145

870

8

311

834

1878,

89

481

.33

1879,

116

733

21

1880,

309

$73

1881,

438

168

1882,

679

71

1883,

262

571

1884,

132

600

1885,

105

755

1886,

9

772

1887,

9

441

1888,

299

1889,

1

363

1890,

1

342

1891,

427

1892,

446

1893,

448

* 8 ** 19*~ ~⠀⠀⠀

701

1,304

608

1,478

348

1,030

435

1,079

465

660

1.2.15

1,496

301

1,035

561

176

1,604

10

326

19

1,136

25

276

13

761

2

361

17

236

917

180

7

551

216

1

562

329

9

771

231

294

::

677

742