The month of April has been marked by a Aistinet epidemic of messes and! whooping cough, Paeumonia is still with us, eleven new cases were notified and it was responsible for two deaths among the foreign population.
There hus been an increase in the number of cases of typhoid fever.
There were five cases of small-pox among foreigners but no deaths from this disease, while among the Chinese there were twenty: nine deaths.
Deaths Registered in the Foreign Community.
Small-pox a 198, 1899. Typha er 1 Cholera 0 0 Total from all causes M28 Calculated population... 5,280 5,510 Death-rate per thousand 13.2 9.07
Deaths Registered in the Native Community: 898, 1899. Small-pox 2 Cholera 0 0 Total fro 093 293 Calculated population...300,000 322,000 Death-rate per thouse 4 "6.9
Infectious Diseares Notified in Foreign geet Community.
Typhoid Fever Byphus Fever.
Dysente Diphtheria Measles Scarlet Fever Whooping-cough Puboreulosis 8 Influenza. " 12
Malaria 7 Lobar Paoeumonia a Infantile Diarrhoea 5 Erysipelas 1
Total 116
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