434
Table XIV.-VACCINATION performed during the Year 1896 by TRAVELLING VACCINATORS of the TUNG WA Hospital.
In the City of Victoria.
1,308
In Out-Districts.
293
Total.
1,601
Table XV.-Shewing the Rate of MORTALITY among the FOREIGN RESIDENTS in Hongkong during the last 10 Years.
Years.
Number of European and
American Residents.
Deaths.
Percentage of Deaths to Number of Residents.
1887,
3,040
108
3.55
1888,
3,040
122
4.01
1889,
3,040
93
3.06
1890,
3,040
95
3.12
Ù
1891,
4,195
57
1.36
1892,
4,195
75
1.79
1893,
4,195
93
2.22 -
·
1894,
4,195
105
2.53
1895,
4,195
102
2.43
1896,
4,195
115
2.74
Average of 10 Years,...
3,733,0
96.5
2.68
J. M. ATKINSON, Superintendent.
Enclosure 1.
Report of the Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital.
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,
HONGKONG, 20th April, 1897.
SIR, I have the honour to forward the Annual Report on the work done in the Government Civil Hospital, the Lunatic Asylums, and the Epidemic Hospitals during the year 1896.
I. THE HOSPITAL BUILDINGS.
The main portion of the Hospital has been maintained in a satisfactory_condition.
The accommodation is annually becoming more and more cramped and though the laboratory in the lower building was abandoned and the room fitted up for the reception of Chinese 'destitutes the accommodation at present available falls considerably short of what is required for the reception and treatment of all cases that present themselves for admission.
The absolute necessity for a Lying-in Hospital and separate wards for Women and Children is annually becoming more apparent.
As regards the former I hope that now that Kennedy Town Hospital has been permanently handed over to the Department for the purpose of an Infectious Hospital it will be found practicable to utilise the new building referred to in my last report as the Isolation Hospital as a Lying-in Hospital.
The question of Laundry and Wash-house accommodation is still in abeyance.
II. LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
The buildings have been satisfactorily maintained and nothing calling for special remarks has
occurred.
III. INFECTIOUS HOSPITAL AND HOSPITAL HULK "HYGEIA."
The Infectious Hospital at Kennedy Town was in use all the year owing to the existence of Plague, Cholera and Small-pox in the Colony.
Temporary matsheds were erected in the compound to provide the additional accommodation required.
The Hygeia was used during the months of January, February, March, April, May, June and November when cases of Small-pox and Cholera were under treatment.
I understand that it is intended to remove the Public Disinfector to a piece of land closely adjoining Kennedy Town Hospital.
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