The mortality during December having increased by 41 per cent. with regard to November, indicates an aggravation of the health conditions ior the month. Not all the diseases could be recorded which brought about the death of paupers; the number of corpses removed from the streets is higher by 50 per cent Amongst communicable diseases for which notification is compulsory, smallpox is predominant during the month. It has been evident that diphtheria was rather serious for the Chinese, the death rate recorded being 20 per cent.
Affections oí the digestive tracts have declined, two cases of cholera, of which one was fatal, were noted at the beginning of the month; dysentery has decrease 50 per cent. typhoid fevers were hot numerous. Typhus fever was almost absent However, on the whole, the rate of death's remains very high.
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