CITY REPORTS FOR WEEK ENDED DECEMBER 30, 1922-Continued. DIPHTHERIA, MEASLES, SCARLET FEVER, AND TUBERCULOSIS--Continued.

FOREIGN AND INSULAR.

CHINA.

Cholera-Liutaoku-September, 1922.

Under date of October 9, 1922, cholera was stated to have appeared at Liutaoku, China, September 22, 1922, with 20 reported deaths, 60 cases sent to hospital, and 5,000 inoculations performed. Thirty deaths from cholera were reported along the Korean bank of the Yalu River. No cases were reported within the railway zone.

INDIA.

Cholera-Smallpox -Local Outbreaks Calcutta.

During the week ended December 2, 1922, an increase in the occurrence of cholera and smallpox was noted at Calcutta, India, 25 cases of cholera with 18 deaths being noted as compared with 8 cases with 2 deaths during the preceding week, and 10 cases of smallpox with 5 deaths as compared with 2 cases with 2 deaths during the preceding week. In both cases the increase occurred in local outbreaks, each confined to one ward of the city. The port and shipping remained free from cholera. The increase in general mortality was 24 (week ended November 25, 1922, deaths, 483; week ended December 2, 1922, deaths, 507; population, 903,173).

JAVA.

Epidemic Plague - Klaten.

Under date of November 4, 1922, epidemic plague was reported in the Residency of Soerakarta, occurring at Klaten, district of Ponggok.

Plague-October, 1922.

During the month of October, 1922, 454 cases of plague, with 338 deaths, were reported in the Island of Java.

MADAGASCAR.

Plague.

Information dated November 14, 1922, shows the occurrence of plague in Madagascar to October 30, 1922, as follows: In Moramanga Province, 21 cases with 18 deaths, pneumonic; Tananarive Province, district of Fenoarivo, 7 cases, with 7 deaths, septicemic. In addition, one fatal case of septicemic plague was reported in the town of Tananarive during the week ended October 29, 1922.

MESOPOTAMIA.

Plague Smallpox-Bagdad-October, 1922.

During the month of October, 1922, 7 cases of plague and 285 cases of smallpox with 153 deaths, were reported at Bagdad, Mesopotamia. (Population, officially estimated, 250,000.)

PERU.

Plague-November 16-30, 1922.

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During the period November 16-30, 1922, 75 cases of plague with 39 deaths, occurring in 16 localities, were reported in Peru. distribution according to locality, see page 130.)

POLAND.

Communicable Diseases-October 1-28, 1922.

During the period October 1-28, 1922, communicable diseases were reported in Poland, including Upper Silesia and Vilna, but exclusive of Minsk, as follows:

During the period October 1-28, 1922, 863 cases of dysentery, with 157 deaths, were reported in Poland, occurring in the districts of Krakow, Lodz, and Stanislawow.

Trichinosis--Warsaw.

During the week ended October 21, 1922, two deaths from trichinosis were reported in Warsaw.

RUSSIA.

Anthrax-Leprosy - Lettonia.

During the month of October, 1922, one case of anthrax and one case of leprosy were notified in Lettonia, Russia.

Cholera.

Information dated December 6, 1922, shows the occurrence of $3,367 cases of cholera in Russia from January 1 to October 7, 1922. The occurrence during the first week in October, 1922, was 37, of which 7 cases occurred in the government of Archangel, 27 in Tashkent, Republic of Turkestan, and 3 on waterways. Provisional returns for the month of September, 1922, show the occurrence of 119 new cases in the Ukraine.

Communicable Diseases - Esthonia-Lettonia - October, 1922. During the month of October, 1922, communicable diseases were reported in the Provinces of Esthonia and Lettonia, Russia, as follows:

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Communicable Diseases-Ukraine-January-September, 1922 (Comparative). Communicable diseases were reported in the Ukraine for the period January-September, 1922, compared with the same period in the preceding year, as follows:

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Provisional returns of typhus fever and relapsing fever in Russia for the 8-week period ended September 23, 1922, show 22,803 cases of typhus fever and 53,261 cases of relapsing fever.

For the Ukraine, the Tartar Republic, and Siberia provisional figures are given, as follows: Month of June, 1922-typhus fever, 35,926 cases; relapsing fever, 54,586 cases. Month of July, 1922-typhus fever, 17,262 cases; relapsing fever, 43,871 cases. For the months of August and September, 1922, approximate figures show as follows: August, 6,864 cases of typhus fever and 27,371 of relapsing fever; September, typhus fever, 2,388 cases; relapsing fever, 12,005 cases.

UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Smallpox-Typhus Fever-October, 1922.

During the month of October, 1922, 17 cases of smallpox and 886 cases of typhus fever with 77 deaths were reported among the native (colored) population of the Union of South Africa. During the same period four cases of typhus fever with one death were reported among the white population. (For distribution of occurrence according to

States, see p. 131.)

Epidemiological Report of the Health Section of the League of Nations, Dec. 6, 1922.