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Attached are the usual tables showing the number of deaths among the European and Chinese Communities from diseases that may be attributable to filth for the last twenty-three years.

The table giving the return of deaths among the Chipese shows a marked improvement since the daily admission of patients and also the dead bodies sent to the Tung Wa Hospital has been under European supervision for the last two years, and I think will show further improvement under the new Government arrangeinent for that lospital, supervision commencing last January.

DEATHS AMONG EUROPEANS (BRITISH AND FOREIGN).

FEVERS.

VOMITING

YEARS.

DIARRHEA CHOLERA.! AND

TOTAL

Enteric.

Simple Continued. Typhus.

PURGING.

1873,

17

25

1874,

17

26

*

1875,

18

21

1876, ......

14

21

1877,

5.

8

10

27

1878,

15

9

29

1879,

21

14

39

1880,

12

10

21

1881;

2

17

10

29

1882,,

10

13

1

13

37

1883,

I

9

9

19

1884,

7

12

23

1885,

11

9

19

46

1886,

8

5

18

1887,

10

6

25

T

1888,

16

25

50

1889,

10

16

1890,

4

12

1891,

I

15

1892,

1

6

1899,

11

17

1894,

9

1895, 1896,

5

19

18

*

Sporadic.

DEATHS AMONG CHINESE.

FEVERS.

YEARS.

DIARRHEA.

CHOLERAIC DIARRHEA.

Enteric.

Simple Continued.

VOMITING

AND PURGING.

TOTAL.

Typhus.

1873,

1874,

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12

96

16

195

319

125

46

231

402

1875,

31

291

288

612

1876,

94

343

259

696

1877,

145

370

8

311

834

1878,

89

481

33

701

1,304

1879,

116

733

21

608

1,478

1880,

309

373

348

1,030

1881,

438

168

38

435

1,079

1882,

679

71

465

+

1,215

1883,

262

571

3

660

1,496

1884,

132

600

2

301

1,035

1885,

105

755

561

176

1,604

1886,

9.

772

10

326

19

1,136

1887,

441

25

276

13

764

1888,

299

2.

361

17

236

917

1889,

1

363

180

531

1890,

342

216

562

1891,

6.

427

329

771

1892,

$46

231

677

1803,

418

294

742

1894,

433

312

1

752

1895,

10

199

261

13

487

1896,

120

254

19

400