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Influenza.
The deaths registered during 1927 as caused by this disease number 29, this being the smallest number of deaths ascribed to this disease for the last ten 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 1927 January 0 21 39 20 13 5 6 February 0 161 18 19 13 LO CO 5 6 March 0 25 75 20 13 4 212 3 0 3 April 0 41 38 22 18 5 10 1 May 1 75 32 27 13 7 June 108 137 61 26 44 13 July 53 77 22 54 40 14 August 10 30 14 30 30 5 September 1 8 30 28 40 11 5 October 70 8 44 13 64 7 November 95 9 35 27 76 December 67 2 34 17 58 4 24 Total 405 449 542 303 422 83 52 45 33 29 LOLO O DOWN N 5 4 0 5 9 11 4 4 3 7 3 0 3 5 1NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The incidence of these diseases was slight during 1927, the total number of cases notified being 612.
Many of these were imported, the local cases amounting only to 541. Of these local cases 266 were Typhoid and Paratyphoid cases. For the fourth 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.