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Third Class Inspectors.

D. O'KIEFFE.

J. R. LEE.

S. KELLY.

F. WARD.

*C. W. COYSH.

F. O. AMY.

J. A. BULLIN. H. PEARSON.

C. E. FRITH. C. W. WARD.

R. HUDSON.

The Secretary of the

SANITARY BOARD.

Overseer of Cemeteries.

H. J. WHITE.

I have, &c.,

FRANCIS CLARK, M.D., D.P.H.,

Medical Officer of Health.

Appendix A.

SIR, I have the honour to forward my Report on the Public Mortuary, Kowloon, for the year 1904. The total number of post-mortems made during that period — 675.

These were divided up as follows:-

January, February, = 21 March,

—

28

April,= 66 May, 102

=

40

June,= 57

July, August, September, = 45

=

79

61

October,

•November, =

57 December, =

79

The following is the return of causes of death :-

1. Total General. Diseases,

2. Total Local Diseases,.

•

a. of Circulatory System,.

271 ....209

32

b. of Respiratory System,

...156

*

c. of Digestive System,

11

d. of Urinary System,

8

e. of Generative System, .....

3

3. Total Injuries,

31

4. Decomposed Bodies,

.......164

1. General Diseases.

Small-pox,

Septic,

Pneumonic,

Plague.--Bubonic (Femoral 84; Axillary 6),................90

Enteric Fever,.••••••

Beri-Beri,..

Malaria,

Septicæmia,

Acute General Tuberculosis,

Premature Birth,..

Still Birth,

Marasmus,

Leprosy,

Abscess of Thigh,

Mediastinal Abscess,

6

....27

1

1

...52

.32

1

5

2

8

42

1

1

1

* These officers have the Inspector's Certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute.