PREVALENCE OF DISEASE.

No health department, State or local, can effectively prevent or control disease without knowledge of when, where, and under what conditions cases are occurring.

Acting Asst. Surg. Story, of the Public Health Service, reported by telegraph June 25, 1913, that 1 case of smallpox had been notified at Ketchikan, Alaska.

Arizona-Nogales.

Acting Asst. Surg. Gustetter, of the Public Health Service, reported by telegraph June 28, 1913, that 1 new case of smallpox had been notified in Nogales, Ariz.

California-Imperial County.

Acting Asst. Surg. Richter, of the Public Health Service, reported by telegraph June 28, 1913, that the epidemic of smallpox in Impe

SMALLPOX-Continued.

rial County, Cal., had subsided, 65 cases of the disease, with 10 deaths, having been notified since January 1, 1913.

California-Los Angeles.

Senior Surg. Brooks, of the Public Health Service, reported by telegraph that during the week ended June 28, 1913, 6 cases of smallpox had been notified in Los Angeles, Cal., making a total of 57 cases reported since January 1, 1913.

Indiana-Evansville.

Surg. Clark, of the Public Health Service, reported by telegraph that during the week ended June 28, 1913, 9 cases of smallpox had been notified in Evansville, Ind., making a total of 839 cases reported since October 1, 1912.

Senior Surg. Brooks, of the Public Health Service, reported by telegraph that during the week ended June 28, 1913, 4 cases of cerebrospinal meningitis had been notified in Los Angeles, Cal., making a total of 74 cases reported since January 1, 1913.

Cases and Deaths Reported by Cities for Week Ended June 14, 1913.