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The moral is obvious:-To eat no uncooked vegetables unless grown in a garden where to one's own knowledge such manure is not used.

Cholera.

Two of these cases were of

Five cases of cholera were recorded during the year. European race, one being imported from Canton, while three cases were Chinese, all coal carrying coolies employed in coaling ships in the harbour.

Small-Pox.

During the year 75 cases of small-pox were certified, of which, 22 were Europeans with 13 imported cases, 46 were Chinese with 9 imported, and 7 were of other races with 1 imported case.

The number of vaccinations for the year was 5,722.

Diphtheria.

Twelve cases of diphtheria were notified throughout the year. Nine of these were European cases, seven of which were in children.

Two cases were Chinese and one

Portuguese.

One of the Chinese cases died.

Puerperal Fever.

Seventeen cases of this disease were certified throughout the year. European case, one a Eurasian and the remainder Chinese.

One was a

During the year the Government inaugurated a scheme for supplying trained Chinese midwives to attend the poor in their own houses, and two of such women were engaged in August and were placed under the control of Dr. ALICE SIBREE who has charge of the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital. Up to the end of the year they had attended 22 confine- ments; three of these cases were abnormal and Dr. SIBREE was called in, one being a breech presentation while the other two were forceps cases. It has been arranged for the midwives to exercise a general supervision over the infants during the first twelve months of life with a view to obtaining further information as to the causes of the high infaut death-rate in this Colony.

Relapsing Fever.

Four cases of Relapsing Fever were certified, all among Chinese.

Three cases were importel from Tientsin while the fourth case occurred in the person of a Chinese employed at the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Kennedy Town.

Scarlet Fever.

One case occurred a European child.

Plague.

Fortunately this year the epidemic is the smallest recorded since 1894 with the exception of the years 1895 and 1897 when the small number of cases-44 and 21 respectively-almost preclude the use of the term epidemic for these two years.

The number of cases and deaths during the year according to nationality and locality is shown in Table. III.

INTERMENTS.

The following number of interments in the various cemeteries of the Colony have been recorded during the year:-

Non-Chinese Cemeteries.-Colonial Cemetery

Roman Catholic Cemetery, Mahommedan Cemetery,

Jewish Cemetery,

145

1,243

2

5

1,395