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Influenza.
The deaths registered during 1926 as caused by this disease number 33, this being the smallest number of deaths ascribed to this disease for the last nine years.
The following table shows the numbers of deaths due to Influenza for each month since the year 1918.
Month 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 January 0 20 0 0 20 75 3 108 February 21 13 16 25 13 321 1 137 March 39 5 118 75 4 27 61 April 2 2 19 2 13 26 May 13 7 44 June 6 5 13 July 53 77 22 54 40 5 August 10 30 14 30 30 10 5 September 1 8 30 28 40 11 October 70 8 44 13 64 November 358 8 44 13 7 9 December 983 35 27 76 2 34 Total 405 449 542 303 422 83 52 45 33NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The incidence of these diseases was slight during 1926, the total number of cases notified being only 375.
Many of these were imported, the local cases amounting only to 325.
Of these local cases 174 were Typhoid and Paratyphoid cases. For the third year in succession there were no cases of plague.
The following table shows, besides the total cases of these diseases, the numbers of cases which were of local origin, imported and brought from the New Territory for the Chinese and Non-Chinese sections of the community.
1926