RELATIVE MORTALITY IN THE DIFFEREnt Seasons.
765
From the following Table it will be seen that the months of May and June were the most fatal; excluding plague and small-pox September, October and December were the most fatal months.
1901.
Population:-Non-Chinese 20,096, Chinese 280,564.
Deaths.
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December,
Month.
Non-Chinese. Rate per 1000. Chinese.
Rate per 1000. Total Deaths.
Total Deaths excluding Plague and Small-pox.
27
369
396
390
26
16.92
443
17.57
469
450
32
421
453
379
33
474
507
373
47
26.07
963
34.06
1,010
449
51
952
1,003
427
32
559
591
304
39
20.13
475
30.97
514
469
30
522
552
530
31
541
272
571
34
18.91
408
21.27
442
441
30
543
573
571
Total,
412
6,670
7,082
5,354
GENERAL SANITARY CONDITION OF THE COLONY.
The presence of plague in an epidemic form for the fourth year in succession shows that more radical measures must be taken to improve the sanitary state of the Colony.
With this object in view a cleansing and disinfection of all the Chinese houses in Victoria and Kowloon was commenced in November and was systematically carried through during the four following months.
The Government also decided to obtain from England the services of two experts in sanitation; Professor SIMPSON, M.D., F.R.C.P., and Mr. ROBERT CHADWICK, M.I.C.E., C.M.G., were appointed to advise as to what further steps should be taken to improve the sanitary condition of the Colony.
During the year the various existing Public Health Ordinances were consolidated in Ordinance No. 13 of 1901.
Ordinance No. 30 of 1901 was passed with a view to limiting the erection of new buildings to a greater height than one and a half times the width of the street on which they front unless the building at present occupying such site exceeds that height, in which case the new building may be carried up as high as the existing one so long as the scale contained in Ordinance No. 15 of 1894 is not exceeded.
It also provides that no existing building which does not at present exceed in height one and a half times the width of the street on which it fronts shall be so raised as to exceed that limit of height. It is evident, that resumption of insanitary buildings and of areas will be necessary before there can be much improvement in many of the crowded parts of the Colony.
More public latrines and urinals are also needed.
VACCINATIONS.
The following vaccinations were performed during the year:
Government Civil Hospital,
Victoria Goal,..
Alice Memorial Hospital,
Tung Wah:-
644
.2,880
771
Victoria,
..1,826
Aberdeen,
46
Stanley,
24
Shaukiwan,
25
Hung Hom,
7
Yaumati,.
24
1,952
6,247
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