The epidemic of measles and whooping cough continues, there being sixty cases of measles and thirty-four of whooping-cough during June.
There was only one case of typhoid fever among the foreign population, but the occurrence of seven new cases of tuberculosis indicates a serious danger among us.
Te is especially for the prevention of the spread of tuberculosis that care is taken with the protection of the food supply, and one of these measures is the provision of proper shops and markets for the purpose of obtaining clean food. Were the public aware of the filthiness of the butchers, poultry, game and vegetable shops which are in Chinese hands and would see for themselves the filth which collects under the wooden floors, the nastiness of their ice-chests and the general unhealthiness both in conditions and management of their shops, they would insist on their boys' buying food from the new Public Market, where the shops are as perfect as modern sanitation can make them.
The new Foreign Market on the Maloo is large enough for the supply of all foreign residents with food of a perishable nature.
One thing alone should be sufficient in the eye of a foreigner to condemn the outside shops, namely, the ineradicable habit, which the Chinese have of living, feeding and sleeping among the food-souls which foreigners cat. Unless, however, efforts are made by the foreign public themselves for their own protection, the full benefit to public health of the new Foreign Market on the Maloo will not be effected.
Infectious Diseases Notified in Foreign Community.
Small-pox tery Measles Scarlet Fever Influenza.
Tuberculosis Malaria.
Lobar Pneumonia Anfantile Diarrhea Chicken-pox Mumps.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.