The epidemic of measles and whooping: cough which began in April ly coming to an end; no cases of measles, though seventeen of whooping.cough have been notified during August. There were four cases of typhoid fever and two of tuberculosis. No cholera has been met with.
Sanitary work in the Extended Settlement provides "a wide field. for work. Evidence this will be afforded by the disappearance of the " beggar-boats " from the Sinza Creek be hind the Horse-Bazaar, and the improvement of the condition of the creek its-lIf, formerly a hot-bed of disease. Over a hundred " beggar. oats" and huts, @ constant sottrce of dise and filth have been cleared away in Sinza and other places. Close upon a thousand coffines corpses have been removed outside the Settlement or buried. The is of filth which has been got rid of may he gauged by the fact that over five hundred pits and foul taining night soil have been' cleansed and cleared away.
The Foreign section of the Maloo Market atill fails to hold the position it should do regards the food supply. to foreign residents. The butchers and others who have taken shops in the market still retain their. old shops outside and it is the latter which the boys" and stewards continue topatronise, It is manifestly unhealthy that the food used by foreign residents should be kept in rooms which are also the living rooms of the Chinese shopkeeper and his family. This essential separation of the. shop-from the dwelling-place willie effected by the accommodation provided in the'Maloo Market, Infectious Diseases: Notified in-Foreign Community. Small-pox.
Typhoid Fever Typhus Fever Dysentery Measles Scarlet. Fever Whooping-cough.. Influenza Tubereul Malaria Lobar Pneumonia Infantile Diarrhea Total 119
Deaths Registered in the Foreign Community.
1898. 1899.
Seallpox 0 0 Cholera typhoid fey 0 Total from all causes Galeulated population...
5,280 Deatherate per thousand 35.0
Deaths Registered in the Notice Community.
1398, 1899. 4 8 causes 292 939 0 0
population...300,000. 322,000 Death-rate per thousand 11.7 8.9
Zoolation Hospital, Incert.—No patients admitted during the month,
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