MINNESOTA-Winona.-Month of December, 1891. Population, 19,000. Total deaths, 19, including scarlet fever, 2; croup, 1; and phthisis pulmonalis, 2.

OHIO Cincinnati.-Month of December, 1891. Population, estimated, 300,000. Total deaths, 886, including croup, 10; diphtheria, 46; influenza, 101; measles, 1; scarlet fever, 12; enteric fever, 11; whooping cough, 3; and phthisis pulmonalis, 89.

CLEVELAND.-Month of December, 1891. Population, estimated, 271,353. Total deaths, 392, including scarlet fever, 2; diphtheria, 29; croup, 24; whooping cough, 4; enteric fever, 6; and phthisis pulmonalis, 30.

VIRGINIA-Lynchburg.-Month of December, 1891. Population, estimated, 24,000. Total deaths, 76, including croup, 2; diphtheria, 1.

Publications received.

Twenty-second annual report of the State board of health of Massachusetts, 1890.

Table of temperature and rainfall, week ended January 8, 1892.
[Received from Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau.]

.05

23

18

25

04

26

15

35

Table of temperature and rainfall, week ended January 8, 1892-Continued.

FOREIGN.

(Reports received through the Department of State and other channels.)

BRAZIL-Rio de Janeiro.-The following correspondence has been received, through the Department of State, from the United States consul-general at Rio, relative to sanitary measures proposed for the shipping at that port:

DECEMBER 12, 1891.

SIR: I have the honor to inclose for your information the following important circular, addressed to this consulate-general by the general health inspector of this city. To this circular I shall rigidly adhere, and will issue printed notices to each American captain as he enters the port. As a sanitary precaution, his suggestions are invaluable, as the hot season is now opening and fever is threatening.

I have thanked the inspector for his directions, and promised him strict obedience thereto.

I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,

Hon. WILLIAM F. WHARTON,

O. H. DOCKERY,

ERY, Consul-General.

Assistant Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

INSPECTION GENERAL OF THE HEALTH OF THE PORTS,

Rio de Janeiro, December 7, 1891.

To the Consul-General of the United States of America in Rio de Janeiro:

I am desirous, as far as is in my power, to prevent the spread of yellow fever or any other disease among the vessels in port, and ask your valuable aid.

All vessels are visited by my aids, who instruct the captains to follow hygiene measures, such as daily washing of their ships with phenic acid and water, disinfecting water-closets with chlorate of lime and chloronet of zinc.

They are also enjoined not to allow any soiled clothing in their bunks, and the immediate destruction of any tainted victuals or water.

I beg you to use your authority among the vessels of your nationality in the faithful observance of above dispositions, and to prohibit their sailors from coming ashore, as, owing to their excesses, they fall easy pray to yellow fever.

Please instruct your captains to cease labor during the heated hours of the day, and to hoist the signal of medical visit as soon as first symptoms of any disease are seen.

I avail myself of this opportunity to tender you my highest regards. DR. JOSÉ DE SOUZADA LIEVIERA, Inspector-General.

CANADA-Smallpox.-The following report has been received:

BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC,
Montreal, January 7, 1892.

SIR: I beg to send you the following statement regarding the existence of smallpox in the province :

CEYLON.-From the Report of the Registrar-General for the second quarter of 1891 the following is abstracted:

The estimated population of the island is 3,017,198, showing an increase of 14,789 over the previous quarter. The number of deaths registered was 22,338, corresponding to an annual death rate of 29.8 a thousand of the inhabitants. The deaths included smallpox, 291; varicella, 30; measles, 178; whooping cough, 9; simple, ill-defined, fevers, 4,821; enteric fever, 1,008; influenza, 2; cholera (nostras?), 424: diarrhoea, 1,268; dysentery, 1,608; and phthisis pulmonalis, 491.

CUBA-Havana.-Month of December, 1891. Total deaths, 701, including yellow fever, 17; influenza, 32; enteric fever, 9; pernicious fever, 9; bilióus fever, 1; paludal fever, 8; smallpox, 1; diphtheria, 4: and glanders, 2. Influenza, though continuing as an active epidemic, is less fatal.

For the week ended December 31, 1891, there were three deaths from yellow fever.

FRANCE-Rouen. -Month of November, 1891. Population, 106,496. Total deaths, 286, including none from contagious diseases.

GREAT BRITAIN-England and Wales.-The deaths registered in 28 great towns of England and Wales during the week ended December 26 corresponded to an annual rate of 22.8 a thousand of the aggregate