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PLAGUE.
There were no cases of plague notified during 1925. The date of the notification of the last case of this disease in the Colony was September 27th, 1923.
The Colony has therefore been assumably free from plague for well over two years.
The last notification of a plague infected rat was on September 17th, 1923.
The following table shows the monthly incidence of plague for the last ten years.
Month. 1916. 1917. 1918. 1919. 1920. 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925. January, February, 12 3 1 March, 30 74 22 April, 14 May. June, 9 103 July, 91 9 217 10 August, September. 44 171 23 28 October 451 47 10 84 132 237 49 26 20 November, 77 23 23 14 29 10 7 December, 110 10 Total. 39 38 266 164 138 150 181 148 0 0The cases of Plague recorded in the Colony since the discovery here of this disease in 1894 are given in the following table.
Year Cases Year Cases 1894 ...* 1910 25 1895 5,000 1911 269 1896 1,201 1912 1 1897 21 1913 408 1898 1,820 1914 2,146 1899 1,486 1915 144 1900 1,087 1916 39 1901 1,651 1917 38 1902 572 1918 266 1903 1,415 1919 464 1904 510 1920 138 1905 272 1921 150 1906 803 1922 1,181 1907 210 1923 148 1908 1,073 1924 0 1909 135 1925 0* This is an estimate and is probably much too low.