SUMMARY OF CASES REPORTED MONTHLY BY STATES. The following summary of monthly State reports is published weekly and covers only those States from which reports are received during the current week: Two plague-infected rats have been reported at Galveston, Tex., as follows: One reported positive January 6, 1922, trapped December 5, 1921; one reported positive January 10, 1922, trapped December 12, 1921. CITY REPORTS FOR WEEK ENDED DEC. 24, 1921. The column headed "Median for previous years" gives the median number of cases reported during the corresponding weeks of the years 1915 to 1920, inclusive. In instances in which data for the full six years are incomplete, the median is that for the number of years for which information is available. |