The Archive · 1939

Smallpox Epidemic Reflected In Health Report

800 Cases Reported Last Month, But Vaccination Shows Results; Many Exposed Corpses Picked Up

QuANGHATS health in December continued to be unsatisfactory due largely to the smallpox epidemic, according to the monthly report of the Cotntnissioner of Public Health.

In this connection, the report points out, it is of interest to note that the foreign vaccinated population was comparatively healthy owing to the complete way in which this section has been vaccinated in the past, whereas the Chinese population, consisting as it does of a certain number of newcomers who have not yet been vaccinated, SHOWED & very heavy increased mortality.

The figures of 792 CHinese and 49 papine of te epidemic, though Cases notified reflect the

numbers are perhaps not to be

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