In accordance with a former custom, and at the suggestion of the Captain Superintendent of Police, it is decided to bold the Annual Inspection of the Force on Thursday next, March 26, at, 8 o'clock p.m. With " view to affording every opportuni for the public to attend this function it is decided to hold it in the Public Recreation Ground.
Health Orficer Health Officer's Report for February.
With the exception of two deaths from small-pox no deaths attributable to infectious disease occurred among the foreign community during February. That two deaths among residents should occur from small-pox in a community where exceptional facilities are afforded for vaccination is a matter for carefal consideration, Besides affording [ree vaccination for all Chinese and for indigent foreigners at the Health Office daily at 2 p.m., arrangements are being made for vaccination during March and April (the most popular vaccinating months with the Chinese) at substations in the four sanitary districts of the Settlement, so as to bring vaccina tion nearer to the homes of the people. It is proposed to establish fifteen such vaccinating stations throughout the Settlement. Some of the Taoist temples have, with © commendably progressive spirit, afforded facilities for Municipal vaccination.
The extreme gyrations of the death rate among the Chinese population, unexplainable except by faults in the method of reporting deaths, have been investigated and instructions have been issued for the verification of all deaths among Chinese by the Inspectors and their foreign assistants. In 135 deaths occurring among the Chinese in the Ventral District during the month, the body was viewed by the foreign Inspec-tocsin eighty cases and inaccurate reports given by the Chinese sanitary foremen detected in 25 per cent of the reports, An attempt has been made in the same district to collect the prescriptions of the native apothecaries attending fatal cases. These prescriptions usually bear 1 description of the symptoms and may assist in elucidating the cause of death.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.