SCARLET FEVER, MEASLES, DIPHTHERIA, AND TUBERCULOSIS Contd.

Cases and Deaths Reported by Cities for Week Ended Aug. 30, 1913.

SCARLET FEVER, MEASLES, DIPHTHERIA, AND TUBERCULOSIS-Contd. Cases and Deaths Reported by Cities for Week Ended Aug. 30, 1913-Continued.

Woburn, Mass.

Witinsburg, Pa..

14,246

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18.924

IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS.

HAWAII.

Examination of Rodents.

Rats and mongoose have been examined in Hawaii as follows: Week ended August 23, 1913, at Honolulu, 352; week ended August 16, at Hilo, 1,523; at Honokaa, 1,687. No plague-infected rodent was found.

PORTO RICO.

Rodents Collected and Examined.

Passed Asst. Surg. Chapin reports that during the week ended August 30, 1913, there were examined 1,089 rodents, collected from various points in Porto Rico, and that of these, 767 were collected from various parts of San Juan municipality. None was found infected with plague.

11 from Santa Cruz del Sur, 1 from Cienaga, 1 from Cotorro, and 1 from Santa Clara.
* Imported.

GREECE.

Piræus Cholera.

Cholera was reported, by telegraph, present in the Piræus quarantine September 13, 1913.

MEXICO.

Yellow Fever.

Yellow fever has been reported from Mexico as follows: During the week ended August 30, 1913, 3 cases with 1 death in Campeche, and 1 fatal case in Maxcanu. During the week ended September 6,1913,3 cases with 1 death in Campeche and 1 fatal case in Maxcanu.

PERU.

Plague.

During the period from June 30 to July 27, 1913, plague was reported in Peru as follows: Lima (city), 4 cases; Lima (country), 5 cases; Callao, 2 cases; Mollendo, 1 case; Trujillo, 1 case.

During the week ended August 19, 1913, 1 case of plague was notified in Salaverry, and 4 cases were reported under treatment in

Trujillo Hospital.

ROUMANIA.

Cholera.

A report from Bucharest, Roumania, dated August 28, 1913, states that cholera had been increasing in Roumania. On August 26 there

Were 212 cases present in Roumania.

RUSSIA.

Kherson-Cholera.

A telegraphic report from St. Petersburg, Russia, dated September 14, 1913, states that the town of Kherson, Russia, has been declared infected with cholera. It is reported that there will be established at Jalta a temporary maritime sanitary station to examine ships and passengers arriving there.

SERVIA.

Cholera.

The following reports have been received relative to cholera in Servia: Week ended August 9, 1913, 194 cases with 69 deaths; week ended August 16, 241 cases with 85 deaths. In Belgrade 13 cases and 4 deaths were reported during the week ended August 9, and 5 cases during the week ended August 16.

CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE, AND SMALLPOX.

Reports Received During Week Ended Sept. 19, 1913.