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Ligature of the External Iliac Artery.—This was successfully done for femoral

aneurism.

Anaesthetics.-Chloroform was administered 158 times all by the open method and without any fatal result. Local anesthesia was also frequently employed for minor operations.

l'accinations.

The following were perforined during the year :-

Primary cases.........181 Successful, 45 Unsuccessful,-Total 226. Re-Vaccinations......138

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Radiography.

The new apparatus duly arrived from home and has been installed. We are now able to work the machine from the electric mains, and so far it has worked uniformly well and is a great improvement on the former method with accumu- lating batteries.

I desire to thank all the members of the staff who have so ably assisted me during the year as well as those members of the community who have kindly pre- sented books, papers, flowers, etc., to the patients.

The usual Appendix of interesting cases is attached.

MATERNITY HOSPITAL.

67 cases were under treatment with 2 deaths. Of this number 37 were paying patients, 20 free and 11 the wives of Government servants. Of the children born alive 30 were boys and 28 girls. The two fatal cases were both Chinese and death was due in each case to placenta previa. This class of patient unfortunately never realises the gravity of this complication and almost invariably apply too late for relief.

SICKNESS IN POLICE.

There were 726 admissions as against 707 in 1904, or 74.84 per cent. of the Force were under treatment as against 75.61.

There were 9 Europeans less, 74 Indians more and 46 Chinese less admitted. The average stay in hospital was 7.4 days per man.

Table VI gives the admissions and deaths from the various sections of the Force.

Table VII gives the sick and mortality rate in percentage of strength for the last ten years.

Table VIII gives the admissions into and deaths in the Government Civil Hospital during each month of the year.

There were 10 deaths as compared with 4 last year. Of these, 3 occurred in the European Section, 3 in the Indian and 4 in the Chinese. The causes of death were Heart Disease (2 Europeans), Heat stroke (European), Phthisis and Tuber- culosis (3 Indians), Beri-beri (2 Chinese), Cancer (Chinese), after operation for stone in the bladder (Chinese).

There were 18 cases of invaliding-2 Europeau, 9 Indian and 7 Chinese. The reasons for invaliding were:-Retinitis (1), Delusional Insanity (1), l'hthisis ). Bronchitis (3), Beri-beri (5), Heart Disease (1), Chronic Diarrhoea (1), Senile Debility (1).