FoR avausr, 1893.
There is every likelihood that the settlement will remain free from Cholera this year. There were four new cases of Typhoid fever and two deaths from this cause amon, foreigners during the month.. The deaf rate among foreigners remains high and exceeds that of the native population; the number of deaths among the latter being considerably less than daring the month of July. There were again a small-number of deaths from small-pox among the Chinese n'the Hongkew district.
Deaths registered among the Foreign Community Small-po:: 0 1897. 1893.
2 0 0 Total from ail causes 9 Calculated population 5,050 5,240 Death-rate per thousand... 21.4 25.2 Deaths registered among the Native Community Small-po: 0 4 1897. 1898, Cholera. 1 0 Total from all causes, 232 292 Gateulated population'......293,000 317,000 Death-rate per thousand... 9.05 11.05 Infectious Diseases notified among Foreign Community. typhus fever 0, dysentery 23° diphtheria 0; Small-pox 0, cholera 0, typhoid fever 4, measles 1, scarlet fever 0, whooping-cough 5, influenza '0, malaria 10, lobar pneumonia 0, infantile diarrhea 7. beriberi 1, tuberculosis 3.—Total 54.
The Plague Station was not used during the month.
The Isolation Hospital was not used during the month, Lock Hospitat
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.