SCARLET FEVER, MEASLES, DIPHTHERIA, AND TUBERCULOSIS. Cases and Deaths Reported by Cities for Week Ended Dec. 14, 1912.

SCARLET FEVER, MEASLES, DIPHTHERIA, AND TUBERCULOSIS-Contd. Cases and Deaths Reported for Cities for Week Ended Dec. 14, 1912-Continued.

IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS.

HAWAII.

Examination of Rodents for Plague Infection.

During the week ended December 7, 1912, 177 rats were examined at Honolulu for plague infection. No plague-infected rat was found. During the month of November, 1912, 10,399 rats and mongoose were examinet at Honokaa; and during the same month 4,800 rats and mongoose were examined at Hilo. None were found to be plague infected.

The last case of human plague occurred at Kukuihaele, Hawaii, December 16, 1912. The last plague-infected rat was found at Kukuihaele, Hawaii, November 21, 1912.

A summary of the plague situation to December 14, 1912, including human and rodent cases reported or discovered, was as follows: Rats examined, 32,455; rats found infected, 67; human cases, 56; deaths, 36. The last case of plague in man occurred in San Juan September 12, 1912; the last plague-infected rat was found at Caguas during the week ended December 14, 1912.

FOREIGN REPORTS.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.

Quarantine against Porto Rico Modified.

According to a resolution of the Dominican national board of health passed December 18 the ports of the Republic are open to all vessels from the island of Porto Rico for passengers only, but not for cargo. The resolution provides that passengers produce a certificate of vaccination or be vaccinated before landing.

INDIA.

Bombay-Plague Mortality.

Consul Norton reports:

From September, 1896, the date of the first outbreak, to the end of February, 1911, the registered mortality from plague in the Presidency has been over 1,766,000. The annual mortality from this scourge has twice been in the neighborhood of 300,000; during two years it was over 200,000; and two years about 100,000.

From 1908 the disease showed signs of abating, but the year 1911 was the worst since 1904 for plague throughout the whole presidency; the deaths numbered over 100,000, against just over 25,000 in 1910.

JAPAN.

Status of Cholera.

Surg. Irwin, at Yokohama, reports:

During the week ended November 23 there were reported in Japan 111 cases of cholera and during the week ended November 30, 94 cases. Most of the cases now occurring are reported in Tokyo and vicinity.

TRACHOMA AMONG ARMY CONSCRIPTS.

Among 433,674 conscripts examined for the army during the year 1912, 104,064 were found affected with trachoma.

RUSSIA.

Odessa-Cholera on Steamship.

During the week ended November 20, 1912, 2 cases of cholera, with 1 death were reported on the steamship Bosnian at Odessa, from Constantinople.

The Bosnian left London September 30 and arrived at Constantinople November 10.

CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE, AND SMALLPOX.

REPORTS RECEIVED DURING WEEK ENDED JAN. 3, 1913.

[These tables include cases and deaths recorded in reports received by the Surgeon General, Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, from American consuls through the Department of State and from other sources.] [For reports received from June 29, 1912, to Dec. 27, 1912, see PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS for Dec. 27, 1912. In accordance with custom, the tables of epidemic diseases are terminated semiannually and new tables begun.]