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 953 9,1896
October

EGYPT*.

of cholerain Cairo.
Recrudescence

Cairo, Egypt, September 5, 1896.

Sir : I have the honorto reportthatcholera has reappearel in Cairo.
The cityhad been regardedas practicallyfreefromthe disease, as only
about 30 deaths occurredin the monthof August.
During the last fivedays 111 cases have proved fatal out of 125 that
wereofficially reported. This high percentageof mortalityis, however,
partlyaccounted for by the ignorance and superstitionof the natives,
which leads themto conceal theirsick.
The sanitary authoritieshave summoned all European physicians
attached to that departmentto Cairo, and the mostenergeticmeasures,
includinghouse-to-houseinspections,are in progress.
In the provincesthe deathscontinueto average about 150 daily. The
numberof reportedcases since the disease appeared is 20,342. This is
only about one-thirdof the numberof deaths that occurredin the epi-
demic of 1883.
I have the honorto be. sir,your mostobedientservant,
Horace Lee Washington,
Vice and DeputyTJ.S. Consul-
General.
Hon. Assistant Secretary of State.

GIBRALTAR.

Quarantinenotice.

Gibraltar, September 15, 1896.

At a meetingof theboard of health this day it was decided that their
orderof July 23 last should be modified,and that vessels arrivingfrom
Port Said shall be admitted to pratique afterseven days fromdate of
departure,provided theyhave health on board and do not bring pas-
sengersfromEgypt forGibraltar; otherwisethey will be subjectto the
fullperiod of quarantineimposed by the orderabove referredto.
By order. John C. King,
Secretaryto theBoard of Health.

JAPAN.
diseasein Japan.
Reportof theprevalenceof infectious
Yokohama, September 15, 1896.
Sir : I have the honorto inclose a reportof the occurrenceof infec-
tious disease in Japan for the period September5 to September 14,
inclusive. I do not understandthe omissionof the deaths in thereturn
forTokyo, but know fromnonofficialsources that the mortalityfrom
epidemic dysenteryin that city is quite up to the average for other
districtssuffering fromthe same disease.
your obedientservant,
I am, sir,veryrespectfully,
Stuart Eldridge, M. D.,
, TJ.S. M. H. S.
SanitaryInspector
87
 9,1896
October 954

[Inclosure.]
Report disease
ofinfectious inJapan
,from б toSepUmber
September 1896.
14",
Cholera. Dysentery. Smallpox.
Locality.
Cases.Deaths.
Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
KiotoFu 73 9
OsakaFu 5 2
Tokyo Fu 208 (*) 7
AichiKen : 409 100
AkitaKen 11 1
Awomori Ken 2 0 2
ChibaKen 178 30 2 1
FukuiKen
Fukuoka Ken 102 19 1
FukushimaKen 10 1
GifuKen 289 58
Gumma Ken 1,396 198
HiogoKen 164 98 21 11
IshikawaKen 156 46
IwateKen 15 3
KagawaKen 294 82
KagoshimaKen 294 69 2
Kanagawa Ken ¡ 219 34
KumamotoKen ¡ 78 15 1
MiyagiKen {: 133 19 2
MiyazakiKen 46 14
Nagano Ken | 1
NagasakiKen ¡ 32 9
NaraKen 38 11
Ken
Niigata
OitaKen
Okayama Ken 509 125
SagaKen 16 7
SaitamaKen 70 108 1 1
ShidzuokaKen 251 71
ShigaKen 94 21
ShimaneKen 589 135
Ken
Tochigi
TokushimaKen 134 19
Ken
Tottori 80 20
Toyama Ken 40 9
YamaguchiKen 99 36
YamanashiKen 116 17 3 l
Yehime 788 209 1
TheHokkaido 2 0 4 1
Total 6 2 7,561 1,592 48 15
*Noreport.

STATISTICALREPORTS.

Australia - New SouthWales- Sydney .- Monthof July,1896. Esti-

mated population,408,500. Total deaths,471,includingdiphtheria,12,
and 10 fromentericfever.
Bahamas - DunmoreTown.- Two weeks ended September 25, 1896.
Estimatedpopulation,1,472. No deaths.
Governors Harbor.- Two weeksended September26, 1896. Estimated
population, 1,500. One death reported. None from contagious dis-
eases.
Chili - Antof agasta.- MonthofAugust,1896. Estimatedpopulation,
13,456. Total deaths,39, including2 fromphthisispulmonalis.
France - Nice.- Month of August, 1896. Estimated population,
108,227. Total deaths, 121, including enteric fever, 2; whooping
cough, 2, and phthisispulmonalis,17.
Rouen.- Month of August, 1896. Estimated population, 111,847.