DIPHTHERIA, MEASLES, SCARLET FEVER, AND TUBERCULOSIS-Contd.

City Reports for Week Ended Mar. 22, 1919—Continued.

DIPHTHERIA, MEASLES, SCARLET FEVER, AND TUBERCULOSIS-Contd. City Reports for Week Ended Mar. 22, 1919-Continued.

DIPHTHERIA, MEASLES, SCARLET FEVER, AND TUBERCULOSIS Contd. City Reports for Week Ended Mar. 22, 1919 Continued.

FOREIGN.

AUSTRALIA.

Quarantine Against Arrivals from Honolulu Modified.

According to information dated February 26, 1919, quarantine detention of vessels arriving at ports in Australia from Honolulu will be reduced to a period of four days if certificates can be produced showing that medical inspection of all persons on board, with thermometer observations, was conducted prior to departure and that no sickness existed on board the vessels. Otherwise the detention period after arrival will be seven days.

CUBA.

Communicable Diseases-Habana.

Communicable diseases have been notified at Habana as follows:

Recurrence of Influenza-Belfast, Ireland.

Recurrence of influenza, with many cases, was reported during the month of February, 1919, at Belfast, Ireland. During the week ended February 27, 16 deaths from influenza were notified out of a total of 216 deaths. On March 11 the epidemic was reported to be declining. The virulence of the disease was stated to be much less than during the outbreak in November, 1918, and the rate of mortality small compared with the number of cases.

GREECE.

Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis-Patras.

Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis was reported at Patras, Greece, March 25, 1919.

NETHERLANDS.

Influenza-Acute Respiratory Diseases-November-December, 1918.1 Reports of influenza prevalence in the Netherlands show the occurrence of 10,676 fatal cases during the month of November, 1918, and 2,886 fatal cases during the month of December, 1918. During the same periods the mortality from other acute respiratory diseases was reported as follows: Month of November, 1918, 16,960; month of December, 1918, 5,321. The population of the Netherlands was estimated, December 31, 1917, as 6,724,663. The distribution of the reported mortality according to provinces and populations was as follows:

During the year 1918 there were reported 664,433 cases of influenza in Switzerland. (See p. 723.) At Basel 1,558 cases were reported during the month of January and 929 during the period February 1 to 15, 1919. At St. Gall 390 cases were reported in January and 40 cases during the first two weeks in February, 1919.

CHOLERA, PLAGUE, SMALLPOX, TYPHUS FEVER, AND YELLOW FEVER. Reports Received During Week Ended Apr. 11, 1919.2

1Public Health Reports, Mar. 21, 1919, p. 589.

* From medical officers of the Public Health Service, American consuls, and other sources.