Glasgow, viz, 21.2 a thousand. The aggregate number of deaths registered from all causes was 493, including measles, 27; scarlet fever, 4; diphtheria, 2; whooping cough, 27; and diarrhea, 6.

HAITI-Port au Prince-Diphtheria.-The United States consul-general writes as follows, dated June 15, 1892:

I have to inclose the accompanying extract from Le Moniteur, the official publication of the Haitien Government, in which the medical jury warns the population of the existence of several cases of diphtheria. Although the disease has not reached the epidemic stage, I shall make note in all bills of health of the existence of the malady, and I will continue to do so until the same medical authorities announce the suppression of the disease.

HONDURAS― Yellow fever.-The United States consul at San Juan del Norte, under date of June 17, 1892, writes as follows:

I have the honor to report that I this day cabled you

"Dorian left for New York without my bill of health. She came from Puerto Cortez and Livingston, where yellow fever prevails; carries passengers from there."

I have heard these facts from Mr. Eugene Colson, an American citizen and merchant of this city, who was a passenger from New York on the Dorian, and also from the conversation of Mr. J. G. Owens and Mr. M. F. Saville of the museum of Harvard College, who were in Honduras digging for antiquities, and who held letters of recommendation to consular officers from you, and who left Honduras hastily, in the general exodus, leaving behind their clothing, blankets, and even rifles.

They also stated that yellow fever was raging at San Pedro Sula, the inland terminus of the railway from Puerto Cortez; that deaths were occurring in some of these three named places at the rate of 20 per day; that the people were fleeing, all who could get away; that two out of four doctors at San Pedro Sula had died and one had run away.

Feeling it my duty to advise you of these facts, I used my judgment and went to the expense of a cablegram.

This city, as well as Bluefields, whence I have just returned, are all perfectly healthy and free from fever up to the present.

RUSSIA-Cholera.—The following dispatch has been received from the Department of State:

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30, 1892.

Our vice-consul at Odessa, Russia, has cabled, June 29: Cholera, Baku, Caucasus.

JOHN W. FOSTER,
Secretary of State.

ST. HELENA.-Two weeks ended May 30, 1892. Total deaths, 2. None from contagious disease.

Population, 3,900.

ABSTRACT OF SANITARY REPORTS.

VOL. VII.

WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY 15, 1892.

No. 29.

[Published at the Marine-Hospital Bureau in accordance with act of Congress of April 29, 1878.]

UNITED STATES.

SPECIAL REPORTS.

Circular.-Vessels from cholera-infected districts to be forbidden entry unless provided with certificates of disinfection.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

Office Supervising Surgeon-General U. S. Marine-Hospital Service,

Washington, D. C., July 8, 1892.

To Collectors of Customs. Medical Officers of the Marine-Hospital Service, and others whom it may concern :

The act approved April 29, 1878, entitled "An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States,” provides that no vessel coming from any foreign port or country where any contagious or infectious disease exists, nor any vessel conveying infected merchandise, shall enter any port of the United States, or pass the boundary line between the United States and any foreign country except in such manner as may be prescribed under said act.

Information has been received that cholera prevails in the Caucasus, in eastern European Russia, in Persia, in Calcutta, and on the western littoral of the Red Sea; and in view of the threatened further spread of the disease, and because of the danger which attaches to rags, furs, wool, hides, etc., which may have been gathered in the infected districts, and to articles of personal wear therefrom, it is hereby ordered that no vessel having rags, furs, skins, hair, feathers, boxed or baled clothing or bedding, or any similar article liable to convey infection, hailing from any port in the districts aforesaid, and no vessel from any port carrying the above-mentioned merchandise or immigrants from the present infected districts or from districts that shall hereafter be officially declared infected, will be allowed entry to any port in the United States unless provided with either a consular certificate or a certificate from a medical officer of the Marine Hospital Service, or State or local quarantine officer of the United States, to the effect that the vessel, cargo, personal effects, etc., have been disinfected in accordance with the methods herewith prescribed.

A.-DISINFECTION OF VESSELS.

The disinfection of the vessel must be in accordance with the most efficient quarantine practice, and will be by one or more of the following methods:

a. Bichloride of mercury.

b. Sulphurous oxide.

c. Steam heat.

In addition to the above, thorough cleansing, flushing with sea water, etc.

B.-DISINFECTION OF ARTICLES OF MERCHANDISE, PERSONAL EFFECTS, ETC.

For the disinfection of the articles of merchandise, personal effects, etc., mentioned in the circular, one or more of the following methods will be used, all articles to be unbaled:

1. Boiling in water not less than one hour.

2. Exposure to steam not less than one hour, the steam to be of a temperature not greater than 115 degrees centigrade (239 degrees Fahrenheit), and unmixed with air.

All bedding and clothing must be subjected to method No. 1 or No. 2. 3. Exposure not less than six hours to sulphurous acid gas. made by burning not less than three pounds of roll sulphur to each 1,000 cubic feet of space.

4. Exposure not less than six hours to an atmosphere containing 3 per cent. of sulphurous acid gas liberated from its liquid state (liquid sulphur dioxide).

5. Solution of carbolic acid of a 2 per cent. strength.

This method (No. 5) may be applied only to leather goods, such as trunks, satchels, boots, shoes; to rubber goods, etc., the articles to be saturated with the solution.

WALTER WΎΜΑΝ,

Supervising Surgeon-General U. S. Marine-Hospital Service.

Approved by direction of the President :

A. B. NETTLETON,

Acting Secretary.

In connection with the above circular the Secretary of State has been requested to cable the consuls in the infected districts notifying them that rigid disinfection will be enforced at United States ports, and urg ing them to discourage, by all lawful means, shipments to the United States.

Disinfection of immigrants' baggage at Ellis Island, New York.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

Office Supervising Surgeon General Marine-Hospital Service,
Washington, D. C., July 7, 1892.

SIR: I have respectfully to invite your attention to the fact that cholera is spreading in the far east, official information having been received at this Bureau of its prevalence in the Caucasus, in Persia, in India, and on the western shore of the Red Sea. Newspaper reports also indicate that it is spreading in Russia.