S.M.C. Health Report and Safety Measures Counsel to bathers about, the contracting of "swimming ear" in pol~ Tuted "water, is contained in the 'April report' of the Commissioner of Public Health, released on Saturday. The report says, in part:
The past month may be regarded fas a comparatively healthy one, the ineldentce of communicable disease bbelng reasonably low, and the mortality rates are also low.
During April, reports which caused some anxiety were received showing that cerebrospinal fever was rife in Various districts from which the ease might spread to Shanghai. flat reports showed that the disease was fairly prevalent in Formosa, and other "places, but in spite of close observation of the local situation, hothing more serious than a normal sporadic incidence was revealed in the Settlement.
The 1933-34" anti-smallpox season concluded with the record total of 241440 free vaccinations, an increase of roughly 50 per cent. over the previous period.
Representatives from the Depart ment attended the annual conference of the respective Municipalities, the National Health Administration' and the Quarantine Service, with the object of ce-ordinating anti-cholera measures for the forthcoming season. Free inoculation work is now progress.
In view of the public interest in' Leprosy, extensive investigations were made with the result that a {olal of seventeen cases were located Yhroughout the Settlement. Many of the difteulties in obtaining housing in a set in. Chapel, mille.
The death-rates, G00) and Chinese (15.78), do not call for particular comment. The death rates from notifiable communi. feeble disease were, foreign (3.5) and Chinese (@.1) per mille, respectively.
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