CHOLERA, PLAGUE, SMALLPOX, TYPHUS FEVER, AND YELLOW

FEVER-Continued.

Reports Received During Week Ended December 21, 1923--Continued.

Aug. 24-Sept. 24...

4

Poland.....

Union of South Africa..

Cape Province.

Do... Natal.

Oct. 14-27.

Paratyphus fever, Oct. 14-Nov. 17, 1923: Cases, 39.

Including municipalities in Federal district.

43:

Sept. 16-22, 1923: Cases. deaths, 4; Recurrent: Cases, 4. Sept. 1-30, 1923: Cases (colored), 316; deaths, 91. Cases (white), 5; deaths, 3; total, 341 cases, 97 deaths.

Sept. 1-30, 1923: Cases, 269; deaths, 81 (colored). White population, 3 cases, 1 death. Outbreaks.

Sept. 1-30, 1923: Cases, 10: deaths, 3 (colored.) White, 1 case, 1 death.

Outbreaks.

CHOLERA, PLAGUE, SMALLPOX, TYPHUS FEVER, AND YELLOW

FEVER-Continued.

Reports Received During Week Ended December 21, 1923-Continued.

Reports Received from June 30 to December 14, 1923.1

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

CHOLERA, PLAGUE, SMALLPOX, TYPHUS FEVER, AND YELLOW

FEVER-Continued.

Reports Received from June 30 to December 14, 1923—Continued.

Nanking.
Do..

Ecuador:

Guamote..

May 27-June 23..

Rodent plague present.
Present.

July 8-Sept. 1..

Reported as endemic.

Apr. 29-June 30..

63

40

July 1-Oct. 6...

33

39

May 31..

1

1

Guayaquil..
Do..

3

Santa Ana (Manabi).

Egypt.....

2 Country district.

May 16-June 30, 1923: Rats examined, 13,800; found infected, 39. July 1-Aug. 15, 1923: Rats examined, 13,450; found infected, 23. Aug. 16-30, 1923: Rats taken, 54.304; found infected, 66. (Number examined not reported.)

Jan. 1-June 21, 1923: Cases, 1,051; deaths, 548. May 1-29: Cases, 345. Jan. 1-June 24, 1923: Cases, 1,069. Jan. 1-Oct. 4, 1923: Cases, 1,360; deaths, 652.

Bubonic.

CHOLERA, PLAGUE, SMALLPOX, TYPHUS FEVER, AND YELLOW

FEVER-Continued.

Reports Received from June 30 to December 14, 1923—Continued.

Cases. Deaths.

Remarks.

Present.

Plague-infected rats: Pohakes, May 23, 1923, 1 rat; vicinity of Pacific Sugar Co. mill, June 2, 1 rat: Aug. 2, 1 rat at HamaKE Mill Co. plantation. Aug. 16, plague rat found at Kapulera. 1 July 20, 1923: One plague rot; July 30, 2 plague rats; Honokas Sugar Co. mill and Honoka village.

Apr. 29-June 23, 1923: Cases, 5,783; deaths, 4,481. July 1Sept. 22, 1923: Cases, 23,225, deaths, 15,850.

411

July 1-Oct. 13..

50

42

May 6-June 9.

13

13

Aug. 12-Sept. 15...

2

2

May 13-June 30. .

110

July 1-Oct. 20..

123

111

Madras Presidency..
Do.
Rangoon..
Do..

May 13-June 30..

254

141

July 1-Oct. 27..

Indo-China..

291

Oct. 1-Dec. 31, 1922: Cases, 28:
deaths, 237. Sept. 1-30, 1922
70 cases, 68 deaths.

5 Including 100 square kilometers
of surrounding country.
Do.

Preceding month, 15 deaths.

Do.

Jan. 1-Feb. 28..

CHOLERA, PLAGUE, SMALLPOX, TYPHUS FEVER, AND YELLOW

FEVER-Continued.

Reports Received from June 30 to December 14, 1923—Continued.