SCARLET FEVER, MEASLES, DIPHTHERIA, AND TUBERCULOSIS-Contd. City Reports for Week Ended Dec. 6, 1913. SCARLET FEVER, MEASLES, DIPHTHERIA, AND TUBERCULOSIS-Contd. City Reports for Week Ended Dec. 6, 1913-Continued. FOREIGN REPORTS. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. Status of Cholera. Cholera has been notified in Austria-Hungary as follows: BosniaHerzegovina, November 6 to 12, 1913, 8 cases; Croatia-Slavonia, November 3 to 17, 1913, 23 cases with 9 deaths; Hungary, November 2 to 8, 1913, 51 cases with 22 deaths. CHINA. Examination of Rats-Shanghai. During the week ended November 15, 1913, 277 rats were examined at Shanghai for plague infection. Of this number 6 were found plague infected. ECUADOR. Plague--Yellow Fever. Plague and yellow fever have been notified in Ecuador as follows: MONTH OF OCTOBER, 1913. Plague. Guayaquil, 108 cases with 23 deaths; Yaguachi, 4 cases with 3 deaths. Yellow fever. Guayaquil, 3 cases; Milagro, 1 case; Naranjito, 1 case with 1 death. GREAT BRITAIN. Plague in Rodents-London. Rats are being regularly trapped and poisoned in the vicinity of the principal docks in London. Rats caught are also being examined bacteriologically. During the year 1911, 1,250 rats were examined and 1 was found infected with plague. During the year 1912, 1,310 rats were examined and 13 found plague infected. It is reported that only 2 infected rats have been found this year, the last having been trapped on or about November 12, 1913. During the past six years infected rats have been found each year among those trapped along the London docks. GREECE. Typhus Fever-Patras. Two deaths from typhus fever were notified at Patras December 15, 1913. |