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Plague.
There were no cases of plague notified during 1927. 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 four 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. 1918. 1919. 1920. 1921. 1922. 1923. 1924. 1925. 1926. 1927. January, 4 2 2 February, 1 23 2 March, 30 74 2 April, 94 9 5 247 10 May, 44 171 28 June, 84 132 56 July, 103 26 20 262 28 454 47 64 237 August, 23 14 6 29 10 September, 3 8 3 October, 2 1 7 November, 1 December, 1 3 Total, 266 464 138 150 1,181 148 10 6 10 5 2 1The 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 1911 269 1895 44 1912 1,857 1896 1,204 1913 408 1897 21 1914 2,146 1898 1,320 1915 144 1899 1,486 1916 39 1900 1,087 1917 38 1901 1,651 1918 266 1902 572 1919 464 1903 1,415 1920 138 1904 510 1921 150 1905 272 1922 1,181 1906 893 1923 148 1907 240 1924 0 1908 1,073 1925 0 1909 135 1926 1910 25 1927 0*This is an estimate and is probably much too low.