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HOSPITAL DEATHS.

In Table VI. will be found a return of the number of hospital deaths which amounted to 2,926, or 40.9 per cent. of the total mortality for the year. Most of these deaths occurred in the hospitals which were used temporarily for patients suffering from the plague.

Table VII. gives the number of patients under treatment in the Tung Wa Hospital during 1894, and shows that the total under treatment was 2,459; total discharged 1,259; total deaths 1,092 or 44.41 per cent. of the total number admitted.

The out-patients during the year were-

Male, Female,

76,823

.47,271

MORTALITY DURING LAST SIX YEARS.

The following Table shows the number of deaths and the death-rate per 1,000 during the past

six years.

Estimated Population.

1889

1890

1891

1892

1893

1894

British and Foreign,

10,832

10,972

10,494

10,590

10,686

10,782

Chinese,

.183,650

187,770

214,320

221,072

228,038

235,224

Whole,

194,482

198,742 224,814

231,662

238,724

246,006

Deaths.

4,597

4,553 5,374

4,906

5,422

7,407

Death-rate per 1,000.

British and Foreign,

17.54

17.13

18.20

17.37

17.97

23.28

Chinese,

24.00

23.25

24.18

21.36

22.93

30.42

Whole,..

23.64

22.90

23.90

21.18

22.71

30.11

CAUSES OF DEATHS.

Table VIII. (4) shows the causes of death. 217 deaths out of the total of 251 among the British and foreign community and 3,046 deaths out of the total of 6;243 among the Chinese in Victoria were certified to by medical certificates or by the Coroner.

VACCINATION ORDINANCE.

(No. 5 of 1890.)

Table IX shows that during the year 786 vaccination notices were issued, and that 845 certificates of successful vaccination were received. There were no prosecutions under the Ordinance.

REGISTRATION OF BOOKS.

(Ordinance No. 10 of 1888.)

During 1894, 63 books were published as against 44 in 1893, lists of which have been published in the Gazette.

REGISTRATION OF HOUSEHOLDERS.

(Ordinance No. 13 of 1888, Chapter III.)

Table X (A) contains a return of-

(a) The first registration of householders; (b) The re-registration of householders;

(c) Extract from Householders' Register;

(d) Removals of householders;

(e) Duplicate householders' certificates issued;

(f) Changes in tenancy reported.

Table X (B) shows that the number of Chinese shops opened was 1,031 and the number closed 862, an excess in favour of shops opened of 169. The number of shops opened and closed in 1893 was 1,128 and 936 respectively.