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Table IV shows the monthly distribution of plague and of infected rats during the year.
Owing to the increase of plague-infected rats found during May, June, and July, rat poison was laid down in many Chinese houses throughout the City with satisfactory results.
Enteric Fever.
The number of cases of this disease notified during the year was 188 as compared with 198 in 1915 and 219 in 1916. Five cases were imported. The cases of European or American nationality were 21 (28 in 1916), Portuguese 2, Japanese 4, Indian 6, and Parsee 1. The remainder of the cases were Chinese.
It has not been possible to trace the source of the infection in these cases, nor the direct infection of one case from another. The incidence of the disease has not been of the nature of a water or milk-borne epidemic, but may have been acquired by the eating of raw vegetables grown by the Chinese method or by the eating of shell-fish. As it is the custom in Hongkong to use uncovered latrine buckets in Chinese latrines, the contamination of food by flies probably plays a considerable part in conveying this disease.
Paratyphoid Fever.
Seven European cases were notified.
Scarlet Fever.
Two European cases and one Portuguese were notified.
Cholera.
No cases were notified.
Small-pox.
During the year 595 cases occurred (712 in 1916, 34 in 1915 and 110 in 1914). In the latter 6 months of the year only 4 cases were notified.
A vaccination campaign was organised and the vaccinations performed increased from 6,333 in 1915 to 36,113 in 1916 and 50,347 in 1917.
Diphtheria.
Sixty-nine cases occurred during the year, two of which were imported; 62 of the cases affected were Chinese.
Puerperal Fever.
Twenty cases were notified, one of which was of Japanese nationality, 1 Portuguese, and the remainder occurred in Chinese.
Five Government midwives attended 553 cases (488 in 1916).
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Table IV shows the monthly distribution of plague and of in- fected rats during the year.
Owing to the increase of plague-infected rats found during May, June, and July, rat poison was laid down in many Chinese houses throughout the City with satisfactory results.
Enteric Fever.
The number of cases of this disease notified during the year was 188 as compared with 198 in 1915 and 219 in 1916. Five cases were imported. The cases of European or American nation- ality were 21 (28 in 1916), Portuguese 2, Japanese 4, Indian 6, and Parsee 1. The remainder of the cases were Chinese,
It has not been possible to trace the source of the infection in these cases, nor the direct infection of one case from another. The incidence of the disease has not been of the nature of a water or milk-borne epidemic, but may have been acquired by the eating of raw vegetables grown by the Chinese method or by the eating of shell-fish. As it is the custom in Hongkong to use uncovered latrine buckets in Chinese latrines, the contamination of food by flies probably plays a considerable part in conveying this disease.
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Paratyphoid Fever,
Seven European cases were notified.
Scarlet Fever.
Two European cases and one Portuguese were notified.
No cases were notified.
Cholera.
Small-pox.
During the year 595 cases occurred (712 in 1916, 34 in 1915 and 110 in 1914). In the latter 6 months of the year only 4 cases were notified.
A vaccination campaign was organised and the vaccinations. performed increased from 6,333 in 1915 to 36,113 in 1916 and 50,347 in 1917.
Diphtheria.
Sixty-nine cases occurred during the year two of which were imported; 62 of the cases affected were Chinese.
Puerperal Fever.
Twenty cases were notified, one of which was of Japanese nationality, 1 Portuguese, and the remainder occurred in Chinese.
Five Government midwives attended 553 cases (488 in 1916).
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