Public Health—The Public Health in the past year has not been satisfactory. Two foreigners, Drs. Lynch and Williams, died of Typhus fever, Roads the refugees; Mr. Kingsley died of small-pox. (Note by Council: None these cases was contracted in the Concession.)
'There have been some cases of Cholera' among the Chinese outside the Concession, of which there are no data, owing to lack of notification of deaths and infectious diseases.
Daring the last two months the Following have been noted proposes to introduce free vaccination for all foreigners apd natives. The expense would be small, and the results satisfactory. A beginning was made this month; 15 men in Manicipal employ, 24 policemen, and 5 private servants having been vaccinated.
The Police Station is insanitary, over-crowded, and without means isolation for sick men. The Council is urged to attend to the above matters without delay.
Hospital.—In view.of, the, mortality of past years, due to the want of proper means of isolating infectious diseases, a thoroughly equipped Hospital is strongly advocated.
Chinkiang, December 31, 1907, Bupgsr Srareurst ron Year 1908, Tls. 4,122.50 Rates " 4,200.00 Holk Contributions... 5, 5,000.00 Licences... " 689.00 Canton Guild $500.00 350.00 Ground Rent 400.00 Sundries " 100.00
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