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Table III gives the monthly admissions to the Hospital for malarial fever from each Police Station during 1904.

The following table gives the total admissions to Hospital and deaths in the Force for the last ten years :-

Year.

Admissions.

Deaths.

1895,

456

8

1896,

585

14

1897,

526

7

1898,

488

19

1899.

692

16

1900,

920

1901,

937

1902,

938

1903,

759

1904,

707

8254

TROOPS.

This was a much more healthy year for the Troops than the previous one. The marked diminution in the muumber of malarial fever cases admitted to the Military Hospital still continues as is shown by the following figures :—

Return showing the number of Admissions for Malarial Fevers to the Military Hospital during the years 1902, 1903 and 1904.

Amual

Year.

Average Admissions.

Strength.

Ratio per 1,000.

Remarks.

Europeans,

1,381

1,523

1,102.8

1902

Asiatics,

2,741

1,443

526.5

Europeans,

1,220

937

768.0

1903

Asiatics,

2,568

1,223

476.0

Europeans,

1,426

390

273.5

1904

Asiatics,

2,535

621

244.9

W. F. WEBB, Colonel R.A.M.C.,

Principal Medical Officer, South China.

Decrease in 1904

Europeans,

Asiatics,

.......547 or 494.5 per 1,000 of strength.

...602 231.3

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Awill be seen from the figures supplied by the Principal Medical Officer there was a marked diminution in the average duil rate of sickness as also in the inortality rate amongst both the European and Indian Troops;

lowing table shews the rele

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The gears 1908 and 1904. '

Average Strength.

Year.

Admissions into Hospital.

Deaths.

Average daily rate of sickness,

White, Black. Total. White. Black. Total.

White. Black. Total.

White.

Black.

Total.

Mortality per 1,000 of the Strength.

White. Black.

1903,

1904.

1,220 2,568 3,788 | 1,996 | 2,719; 4,715

1,426 2,535 3,961 | 1,774 | 2.032 : 3,776

12

20

32

112-89 116.82 229.7 9-8 7-8

7

17

24 96-07 $2:41 1784 4.9 6.7

W. F. WEBB, Colonel R.A.M.C., Principal Medical Officer, South China.

GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.

There is no doubt that this Hospital as a building is behind the times and the question of erecting a new Hospital more in accord with modern requirements cannot be much longer delayed. I would repeat what I stated in my last year's report concerning this.