State.

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:

October, 1923.

Delaware.

Hawaii.

Kansas.

Montana.

Oregon...

OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID FEVER IN CHICAGO.

Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings, director of health of Illinois and collaborating epidemiologist of the United States Public Health Service, under date of November 28, reports further upon an outbreak of typhoid fever in a certain district in Chicago as follows:

"In communication with the commissioner of health of Chicago, I learned that during the past week or 10 days there have been over 100 cases of typhoid reported in Chicago. Some 15 cases were reported to this department as occurring in Chicago yesterday, which is the highest number to date for any single day."

Doctor Rawlings states that assurance has been given that everything possible is being done to trace the source, the water supplied by the Sixty-eighth Street pumping station being at the time of his writing under investigation, most of the cases having occurred in the area supplied by this station.

CITY REPORTS FOR WEEK ENDED NOVEMBER 17, 1923.

CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS.

The column headed "Median for previous years" gives the median number of cases reported during the corresponding week of the years 1915 to 1922, inclusive. In instances in which data for the full eight years are incomplete, the median is that for the number of years for which information is available.

See p. 2905; also Current State summaries, p. 2894, and Monthly summaries by States, p. 2898.

INFLUENZA.