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There is a considerable reduction in the death-rate from Malarial diseases as compared with the previous year, but this rate is still high, especially when it is noted that only one death occurred among the European-born civilian population from Malarial Fever, while five deaths occurred among the British soldiers (the other man bring a private of the Hongkong Regiment and hence an Asiatic), and yet the European-born civilians number more than twice as many as the British-born troops.
The death from Bubonic Fever was not incurred in the execution of Plague duty, but infection > must have been contracted by the man (a Fusilier) in some Chinese house of entertainment.
The five deaths occurring in the China Squadron which were registered in this Colony during the year were as follows:--
Small-pox (H.M.S. Undaunted),
1
Heart disease (H.M.S. Centurion),
.1
Articular Rheumatism (H.M.S. Bonaventure), .......1 Septicemia (H.M.S. Orlando),
.1
+
Fracture of Skull (H.M.S. Barfleur)
The average age at death was 24 years.
Seven deaths occurred in persons, other than Chinese, employed by Foreign Navies, as
'ows :-
Enteric Fever (H.I.G.M.S. Gefion),
(U.S.S. Bennington),
(H.I.M.S. Carlo Alberto)
Heart Disease (U.S.S. Charleston).
Injuries (H.I.G.M.S. Kaiser),
(U.S.S. Iris), ....
Fracture of Skull (U.S.S. Concord),
.1
.1
.1
1
.1
..1
The deaths occurring in the Mercantile Marine numbered 34 and were composed as
follows:-
Enteric Fever
.3
Asthma
....1-
Small-pox
Peritonitis
Bubonic Fever (Plague)
.1
Malig. Disease of Liver..............
.1
Septicemia
Dysentery
...1
Beri-Beri
.3
Sprue...
1
Factured Skull
3
Bright's Disease
.3
Drowning
2
Glycosuria.
Scalds
Pernicious Anemia
1
Apoplexy
1
Exhaustion
Phthisis
4
Debility
Pneumonia
2
The death from Bubonic Fever occurred in a Portuguese watchman employed on board the Canton steamer Powan. Two of the deaths from Beri-Beri were in Indians and the third was a Japanese.
The total number of deaths therefore which occurred among the Non-Chinese resident civil community was 159 during the preceding year; allowing 455 for the Non-Chinese floating popu- lation, this is equal to a death-rate of 18.8 per 1,000.
The principal causes of death among the Non-Chinese civil community were as follows:-
.19
Bubonic Fever (Plague)
Small-pox
Typhoid Fever
Whooping Cough
Remittent Fever
Beri-Beri.....
Phthisis
Pneumonia
1
Bronchitis Heart Disease
6
Bright's Disease
2
Apoplexy
Convulsions...
2
.18
Delerium Tremens Drowning
4
.14
8
7
3
1
The nationalities of the 19 persons who died from Bubonic Fever were as follows:-Indian 8, Portuguese 6, Japanese 2, Austrian 1, German 1, British 1.
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
During the year there were 463 deaths of Chinese who were not attended by a medical man, as compared with 641 during the previous year, and in every case the relatives of the deceased have been interviewed and the dead bodies inspected, with the result that no less than 78 deaths from Bubonic Fever (Plague) were thus discovered and the premises disinfected and cleansed, in the usual
course.
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