The following summary of monthly State reports is published weekly and covers only those States from which reports are received during the current week:

One plague-infected rat (from mass inoculation) was reported positive February 14, 1922, at Galveston, Tex. Rat was trapped January 10.

CITY REPORTS FOR WEEK ENDED JAN. 28, 1922.

CITY REPORTS FOR WEEK ENDED JAN. 28, 1922-Continued.

CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS.

The column headed "Median for previous years" gives the median number of cases reported during the corresponding weeks of the years 1915 to 1921, inclusive. In instances in which data for the full seven years are incomplete, the median is that for the number of years for which information is available.

See p. 369; also Telegraphic weekly reports from States, p. 358, and Monthly summaries by States, p. 362.