289
premises succumbed to the disease. The total number of rats caught or found dead during each week of this year has been as follows:-
Week ending January
6 th
1625
Week ending April 20 th
2305
15th
B
1833
27 th
2446
20 th
1682
May
4th
2514
27 th
1924
11th 2837
February
3rd
1942
18th 3130
10th - 2198
17 th 2382
24th 1429
25th 2608
June 1st 2666
March
2nd
-
1930
-
8th 2372
16th
2401
9th - 1903
22nd
1753
16th
1893
29th
A
1651
23rd 1911
July 6th 1471
-
30th 2206
13th
1.529
April
6th 2015
20th
-
1273
13th
2158
28728
27 th 1180
32136
The additional expenditure incurred up to the end of June, as compared with the expenditure for the same period of 1911, when only 180 cases of Plague occurred, has been as follows:-
3 temporary Inspectors (pay and allowances)
Ambulances and Coffine
Burial of infected corpses
Additional coolie labour
Disinfecting Apparatus
$423.65
- $2351.25
- $1435.40
- $1942.09
$82.18
Additional carte
Head stones for the cemeteries
Compensation in connection with disinfection
of infected premises
Total increase for the half year
528.74
346.08
1397.77
$8307.16
8th. August 1912.
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Fravee's Clark
Medical Officer of Health.
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