PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Plague on Steamship from Amoy. Chief Quarantine Officer Fox at Manila reports June 1: On May 25 the steamship Taisang arrived at Mariveles quarantine station from Amoy with a case of plague on board among the steerage passengers. The case ended fatally May 26. The usual precautionary measures were taken. This is the first case of plague imported into the Philippine Islands since April 20, 1906. RUSSIA. Cholera. The American consul at St. Petersburg reports, July 7: From July 5 to 7, 15 cases of cholera with 2 deaths occurred in the Russian Empire. The American consul at Odessa reports July 24 the presence of cholera at Nikolaiev. Nikolaiev is situated in the Kherson government and at a short distance from Odessa. SIAM. BANGKOK-Quarantine against Surabaya. Vice Consul General Hanson reports May 30: According to information received from the ministry for foreign affairs all vessels arriving in Siamese waters from Surabaya, Java, will be held in quarantine at the island of Koh Phra on account of plague. CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE, AND SMALLPOX. Reports Received During Week Ended July 28, 1911. [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.] CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE, AND SMALLPOX-Continued. Reports Received During Week Ended July 28, 1911. 1 Bulletin Quarantenaire d'Egypte, June 29, 1911. * From the Veröffentlichungen des Kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamtes, July 5, 1911. CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE, AND SMALLPOX-Continued. Reports Received During Week Ended July 28, 1911. [For reports received from Dec. 31, 1910, to June 30, 1911, see PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS for June 30, 1911. In accordance with custom, the tables of epidemic diseases are terminated semiannually and new tables begun.] Place. CHOLERA. Remarks. Case July 3, from s. s. Oceania. Present. Total for continental Italy outside of Naples June 8 to July 11: Cases, 440; deaths, 140. Outside of Palermo City to July 6, 27 cases, 11 deaths. Among troops. |