FOREIGN AND INSULAR. TYPHUS FEVER ON VESSEL. Steamship "Norden"-Marcus Hook-From Tampico via Nuevitas. The steamship Norden from Tampico, Mexico, via Nuevitas, Cuba, arrived at Marcus Hook Quarantine Station, Pa., August 18, 1921, with a case of typhus fever on board. The Norden left Tampico, after a stay of several weeks, for Nuevitas, Cuba, July 30, 1921, and left Nuevitas for Philadelphia August 12, 1921. CUBA. Communicable Diseases-Habana. Communicable diseases have been notified at Habana as follows: During the period January 1 to July 13, 1921, there were reported in Hungary 121 cases of smallpox occurring in 10 counties and 26 localities, and 71 cases of typhus fever occurring in 4 counties and 9 localities. MEXICO. Plague-Rat Infection in Connection with Certain Cases-Tampico. All six cases of human plague reported at Tampico, Mexico, for the week ended July 31, 1921, have been stated to have occurred in the same house under which infected rats were found. Of 30 persons occupying the house, 6 became infected. All those who handled the rats were infected with axillary buboes. of human plague reported, 4 ended fatally. 1 Public Health Reports, Aug. 12, 1921, p. 1935, and Aug. 19, 1921, p. 2)27. Of the 6 cases POLAND. Cholera-Baranowicze. Cholera was reported present at Baranowicze, Poland, August 18, 1921. RUSSIA. Cholera-January 1-July 13, 1921. Information received under date of July 15, 1921, through the sanitary, epidemiologic, and statistical sections of the Health Commissariat, shows a total of 27,779 cases of cholera reported in Russia from January 1 to July 13, 1921. Of these reported cases, 24,000 were stated to have occurred during the month of June, 1921, and 5,412 cases were stated to have been registered on railways. High prevalence was reported in the Volga region, with 7,005 cases in the Saratov district, 2,653 in the Voronezh district, Tambov district 1,396, Orel 140, and in the Don Territory 2,356 cases. In the town of Rostov-on-Don 747 cases were reported under treatment June 1, 1921. In the Kuban-Black Sea territory 1,718 cases of cholera were reported. In other parts of Russia a lower degree of prevalence was noted, as follows: Simbirsk district, 814 cases; Kursk, 528; Kazan, 434; Kharkov, 257; Moscow district, 296; Moscow city, 192; Rjasan, 129. Cholera was reported also at Cheljabinsk, Perm, Petropavlosk, and Ufa, and on the Orenburg-Tashkent line. A few cases were registered in the Smolensk, Vitebsk, and other districts. In Petrograd on July 6, 1921, 6 cases of cholera were reported. CHOLERA, PLAGUE, SMALLPOX, TYPHUS FEVER, AND YELLOW FEVER. Reports Received During Week Ended Sept. 2, 1921.1 .do... 2,653 Remarks. Present. Jan. 1-July 13, 1921: Cases. 27,779. City, 192 cases. Volga region. Do. Do. ! From medical officers of the Public Health Service, American consuls, and other sources. |