Causes and Preventive Measures Discussed in Health Report The foreign death rate for June in the Foreign Settlement was 8.43, and the Chinese death rate 9.98. These figures are the lowst record-in the past twenty-five years, states the S.M.C, Commissioner of Public Health in his monthly. re-accuracies involved in. connection with the Chinese death-rate due to imperfect notification have been frequently alluded to in reports by the Commissioner, but the figures can be regarded as parable with other figures kept ler the same disabilities, more particularly since notification has improved during the last two years. Hence, he says, it is perhaps legitimate to state that, though. a cholera epidemic is. present, the morbidity rate for the town The general mortality from com-muniaable diseases was much below normal during June, though tuberculosis was, "as usual, the chief cause of death under this category. Before discussing the cholera situation it is desirable to quote certain which will serve to indicate tive severity of the out-
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