report Death Kates.—The foreign death rate was 10.13 per mille and the Chinese 13.48 as against 15.87 and 1630 respectively, during the previous month, showing 'a decline in both cases.
1 ere Brice it & eae Aewtic cootes aot Amongst foreigners, deaths from Jcommunicable " diseases chowed Increase, the major causes of death being notified as due' to diarrhoea Jand enteritis (presumably - summer Jdiarrhova), tuberculosis and typhoid ever.
Amongst the Chinese population the death rate from communicable diseases showed a decrease of 2.82 and
last month and' the corresponding respectively, when compared with month last year, cre sop sug tinct eat its see erie Ste fri abut eter Birth Rates—The foreign rate was 16.31 compared with 1636 during the corresponding month last year. Of ithe 79 births recorded this month 68 were residents of the International Settlement.
The Chinese birth rate showed an increase of.74 per mille over last month, a total "of 300 births being recorded (227 of which were among the residents of the International Settlement).
SRE ae care a th ame Anti-Rabie Institute.—115 persons, including 18 from outports faliended for advice and/or treatment, fand in 110. eases. treatment—was advised. Of these 55 received full treatment, 39 precautionary treat iment, and in 16 cases patients failed to complete the treatment advised.
Beside nee tat Shanghai, Sept. 26.
With the exception of the T.B. floor Municipal Isolation Hospital was pearly empty. In all there were only 22 admissions, and of these 12° were for pulmonary tuberculosis,
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