HONGKONG.
473
No. 34
95
THE COLONIAL SURGEON'S REPORT FOR 1894.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor.
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,
HONGKONG, April 29th, 1895.
SIR,-I have the honour to forward my Annual Report for the year 1894, together with the reports of the Acting Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, the Medical Officer in charge of the Gaol, the Superintendent of the Vaccine Institute, and the Government Analyst.
POLICE.
The total number of admissions was 18 less than in 1893. The total number of deaths was 15 as compared with six in 1893. The number of European Police admitted to Hospital was 127 as compared with 134 in 1893; the number of Indian Police 244 as compared with 255 in 1893; the number of Chinese Police 184 as compared with 133 in 1893. A decrease in the admission of Europeans of 7, a decrease in the admission of Indians of 11, and an increase in the admission of Chinese of 1 as compared with 1893.
Of the 15 deaths there were none among the European Police, 4 among the Indian Police, two of whom died in Hospital, one from natural causes, the other from shot wounds received from Chinese burglars. The two others committed suicide by shooting themselves, one while he was on duty, the other in the Central Police Station compound after he had shot and killed a Chinese Constable. Of the 11 Chinese one Sergeant Interpreter, one Sergeant and 5 Constables died of the plague; seven in all. Two died while away on leave, the cause of death in one case being Beri-beri, the other not known, probably another case of plague. One died of disease in the Government Civil Hospital and one was shot as inentioned above. None of the European or Indian Police suffered from plague although many of them were working hard in the plague-stricken districts of the town and outlying villages.
The admissions to Hospital from the various sections of the Police Force for the past ten years are given in the following table and compares, notwithstanding the terrible epidemic we have passed through, very favourably with former years in all portions of the Force :→
Europeans.
Indians.
Chinese.
Admissions to Hospital, 1885,
124
208
163
Do.,
1886,
.138
243
221
Do.,
1887,
"
..139
293
187
Do.,
1888,
..147
279
231
Do.,
1889,
.166
230
194
Do.,
1890,
.149
254
179
Do.,
1891,
..169
285
118
Do.,
1892.
.152
224
120
Do.,
1893.
.134
255
133
Do.,
1894,
..127
244
134
The following table gives the total admissions to Hospital, and deaths in the Force for the last
ten years-
1885,
1886,
1887,
1888,
1889.
1890,
1891,
1892.
1893,
1894,
Admissions.
....495
Deaths.
9
602
14
.619
9
.657
15
.590
14
..582
7
.570
7
496
..522
505
6 15
No European died, only one Indian from disease and only two Chinese from ordinary diseasc, so that the deaths from ordinary causes have been considerably less than in any of the previous nine
years.
The out-stations on the whole have improved this year, but in Aberdeen. though the figures remain the same as regards all sections of the Force, it was the Europeans and Chinese that suffered nost, and sickness among the Indian Police was reduced from 30 to 19 as compared with 1893. At the hill stations--the Gap and Mountain Lodge-the sickness has very much increased in all sections
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