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Plague.
There were no cases of plague notified during 1926. 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 three 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 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 January + 1 February 2 1 March 30 24 1 April 94 May 84 132 1 June زان July 103 26 20 August 23 + 14 September 30 30 3 October 23 November 74 December 247 10 Total 268 464 138 150 1,181 148 17 64 287 49 77 23 29 10 3 10 3 7 6 10 102 58The 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 *5,000 1910 25 1895 44 1911 269 1896 1,204 1912 1,857 1897 21 1913 408 1898 1,320 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 893 1922 1,181 1907 240 1923 148 1908 1,073 1924 0 1909 135 1925 0 1926 0*This is an estimate and is probably much too low.