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SCARLET FEVER.
There were 7 cases of this disease reported by the Military authorities comprising 5 children and 2 adults, all European. No deaths occurred. The fact that this disease confined itself to the military element suggests the probability of the infection having been imported by the families of soldiers lately arrived in the Colony.
INTERMENTS.
The following is a list of burials during the year 1903 in the Cemeteries of the Colony :-
Non-Chinese-Colonial Cemetery,
Roman Catholic Cemetery,
Mahommedan
Jewish
Parsee
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134
1,027
50
4
4
,
Total,.
1,219
173
314
1.707
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Kennedy Town..............
Cheung Sha Wan ... 1,179
3
Chinese.-Mount Caroline Cemetery,
Mount Davis
Tung Wah Hospital
Infectious Diseases
Protestant
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Aberdeen
Stanley
Shek-O
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Ma-tau Wai
54
259
113
34
8
362
Total.......
4.206
Grand Total,......
5,425
There have been also 16 cremations during the year.
THE DISINFECTING STATION.
A new and more efficient steam disinfector was erected at the Disinfecting Station in the early part of 1903.
The old machine will be erected at the new Disinfecting Station about to be erected at Kowloon. It is to be hoped that the new Station will be erected as soon as possible as it is urgently needed.
The following is a list of the number of articles passed though the Steam Disinfector during 1903.
Articles from private houses in Victoria,
17
"Kowloon,.
Kennedy Town Hospital,.............
11
17
14
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91
Tang Wah Hospital,
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Government Civil Hospital,
97
73
Station Hospital and Barracks,
71
27
Victoria Gaol, ....
82,516
7,415
3,585
100
1,879
1,126
1,147
Government clothing used by contacts and disinfected afterwards, 16,000
Clothing and bedding of Disinfecting Staff,
Total,...........
16,112
129,880
The apparatus was in use on 310 days during the year and for 16 hours daily during the prevalence of the plague epidemic.
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