HONGKONG.
597
No. 30
RETURN OF CASES OF BUBONIC PLAGUE OCCURRING IN THE CITY OF VICTORIA,
HONGKONG, DURING THE YEAR 1899.
99
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of
His Excellency the Governor.
NOTES.
The accompanying return deals with 836 cases of Plague which were reported to the Sanitary Board during the period between the 1st January and Sth September 1899, as occurring in 681 houses in the City of Victoria, Hongkong; there were besides 582 cases which occurred in the Villages of Hongkong and in British Kowloon, or were found in the Streets of the City, on the High Roads, or in the Waters of the Colony, all of these latter being either dead or in a moribund condition when so found.
The asterisks against certain of the houses show that those houses do not satisfy the condition as to an open space of not less than 50 square feet in the rear, as proposed by the Insanitary Properties Bill dated 21.8.99 now under consideration.
The following table shows inter alia the percentage of infected houses so conditioned to the total of infected houses in each District.
1
3
4
6
7
00
9
10
Health Districts.
Estimated
Total
Houses.
Floors.
Population. Acreage.
Persons
per acre.
Total Cases.
Houses
Total Infected Houses that have not an
Percentages:
Infected. open area of 50
Column 9 of Column 8.
square feet.
459
960
8,340
531
13.70
22
917
2,260
22,260
267
83.37
62
23
21
11
52.38
55
29
32.72
3
36
85
4,300
158
27.21
4
958
3,036
23,870
45
530.44
100
81
27
32.14
5
957
2,861
22,270
23
968.26
135
114
58
50.87
825
2,410
17,440
23
758.26
71
58
39
67.24
7
760
2,220
16,490
27
610.74
56
47
14
29.78
8
go
828
1,804
19,240
42
458.09
73
62
43
69.35
9
1,017
2,699
24,800
40
620.00
263
201
140
69,65
10
402
965
7,550
258
29.26
54
39
19
48.71
Total,........
7,159
19,300 166,560
1,414
117.79
836
681
380
55.80
FRANCIS W. CLARK,
Medical Officer of Health.
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