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Dr. Pa. B. C. AYRES from 1st February to 7th February (C.S.9. No. 218 of 1897) and from 29th April to 28th June (C.Q.D. No. 77 of 1897).

Dr. J. BELL from 16th March to 10th May (C.S O. No. 399 of 1897).

Miss EASTMOND. Matron, from 1st April to 31st December (C S.0. No. 652 of 1397).

Miss PATTESON (Sister GRACE) from 19th May to 28th June (CSO). Nɔ. 1,201 of 1337).

Mr. G. MARQUES from 1st July to 31st July (C.S.O. No. 1,606 of 1×97).

Mr. WONG HING from 26th August to 15th September (C.S.O. No. 2,059 of 1897).

Miss PENRUDDOCKE (Sister MARGARET) from 10th September to 15th October (C.S.O. No. 2,043 of 1897).

WORK DONE DURING THE YEAR.

Attached to this report are the following tables :-

GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.

I. Showing the admissions into and deaths in the Government Civil Hospital, during each month of the year, of the Police.

II. Showing the rate of sickness and mortality in the Police Force during the year.

III. Police Return of admissions to Hospital from each district during the year.

V. General Return of the sick treated in the Hospital.

Va. Surgical operations performed during the year.

Vb. Zymotic Diseases, sub-group 1.

Vc.

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2.

Vd. Diagram showing number of cases of Malarial Fever occurring amongst the members of the Police Force admitted in each month of the year.

VI. Showing the rate of mortality in the Government Civil Hospital during the last 10 years. VII Showing the admissions into and deaths in the Government Civil Hospital during each month of last year.

years.

VIIa. The aggregate monthly number of patients visited in the Hospital daily for the last three

VIIb. Table of admissions into and deaths in the Lunatic Asylums during the year. Vilc. Table of admissions into and deaths in the Epidemic Hulk Hygein during the year. VIId. Table of admissions into and deaths in the Infections Hospital, Kennedy Town.

Table V. has been altered in accordance with the Memorandum of the Sub-Committee on Classifi. cation in the last edition of The Nomenclature of Diseases (Royal College of Physicians, London), the separate diseases being given under the heading "General Diseases," the division into groups being omitted.

I have retained the Zymotic diseases in Tables Vb. Vc. and Vd. for purposes of reference. The total number of cases treated during the year was as follows:-

In-patients,..... Out-patients,

..2,445 ..9.990

12,435

This gives an increase of 325 as compared with the year 1896. This is exclusive of minor surgical cases, such as scalp wounds, dog bites, teeth extraction, &c. which were treated in the receiv- ing ward.

In-patients. The total number of in-patients shows a decrease of 153 as compared with 1896, but an increase of 162 as compared with 1895, the following figures giving the numbers treated during last four years:-

Year. 1894... 1895,.

In-patients. .1,963

1896, 1897,

...2,283

..2,598

2,445

The total number of deaths was 119, a percentage of 4.86, the lowest for the last four years:-

Year. 1894,.....

Percentage of Deaths.

....5.14

1895,

.4.99

1896.

.5.50

1897.

.4.86

The

average daily number of sick was 100.09 as against 102.56 in 1896. Of the total number of in-patients 384 were females.

Further accommodation for European Women and Children and for Native Women of every nationality will shortly be provided by the erection of the Women's Jubilee Hospital.

Private Paying Patients.-The number of First and Second Class patients for the past three years has been as follows:-

First Class,.. Second Class,

1895.

1896.

1897.

20

65

53

101

146

153