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Small-pure.

Hongkong is never for long free from this disease which occurs principally in the cool season.

The Chinese are not adverse to vaccination but are very careless in protecting themselves by such means. It needs a panic caused by the unusual prevalence of the disease to induce the Chinese to come forward in large numbers to be vaccinated.

Owing to our changing population the number of susceptible persons tends constantly to increase. The last severe Epidemic of Small-pox occurred in the winter of 1916 to 1917 and a Special Vaccination Campaign resulted in some 300,000 Chinese being vaccinated.

As the Colony was threatened with a Small-pox Epidemic early in the year, the disease being prevalent in Shanghai, a special vaccination campaign in January resulted in 127,302 persons being vaccinated.

The following table shows the monthly prevalence of Small-pox in Hongkong for the last ten years,

Monthly prevalence of Small-pox 1913 to 1922,

:

Month

1913 1914 1915 · 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920

1921 1922

January. February

26 23

3

March

April

May

358

2

I

8

6

1

11

33

3

TO

36

25

58 1

54

4

58

61

June

"

3

15

I!

July August

September..

I

0

X

16

October,

November. December..

328

Total

111 110 31

712

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Induenza.

1

32

27

34

191

212

Hongkong in common with the rest of the world has suffered from the pandemic of Influenza during recent years.

In the years 1916 and 1917 only one death from this disease was recorded each year. The disease appears to have become epidemic towards the middle of 1918.

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