CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE, AND SMALLPOX-Continued. Reports Received from July 1 to Aug. 4, 1911.

MORTALITY-Continued.

Weekly mortality table, foreign and insular cities—Continued.

ARGENTINA-Buenos Aires.-Month of May, 1911. Population 1,328,272. Total number of deaths from all causes 1,721, including diphtheria 2, measles 1, scarlet fever 6, smallpox 34, tuberculosis 184, typhoid fever 46.

BRAZIL-Pernambuco.-Two weeks ended June 15, 1911. Population 210,000. Total number of deaths from all causes 420, including smallpox 86, tuberculosis 49, typhoid fever 1.

BRITISH BURMA-Rangoon.-Month of May, 1911. Population. 289,432. Total number of deaths from all causes 1,083, including

cholera 15, measles 1, scarlet fever 66, smallpox 107, tuberculosis 29, plague 267.

CHILE-Punta Arenas.-Month of May, 1911. Population 12,000. Total number of deaths from all causes 39. No contagious diseases. GREAT BRITAIN. Week ended July 22, 1911.

England and Wales. The deaths registered in 77 great towns correspond to an annual rate of 12.1 per 1,000 of the population, which is estimated at 16,157,797.

Ireland. The deaths registered in 21 principal town districts correspond to an annual rate of 16.8 per 1,000 of the population, which is estimated at 1,149,495. The lowest rate was recorded at Portadown, viz, 4.4 and the highest at Wexford, viz, 22.8 per 1,000.

Scotland. The deaths registered in 8 principal towns correspond to an annual rate of 13.9 per 1,000 of the population, which is estimated at 1,710,291. The lowest rate was recorded at Paisley, viz, 8.6 and the highest at Perth, viz, 17.4 per 1,000. The total number of deaths from all causes was 457, including diphtheria 3, measles 9, scarlet fever 4, typhoid fever 2.

ITALY-Genoa.-Two weeks ended July 15, 1911. Population 295,631. Total number of deaths from all causes 230, including diphtheria 3, measles 1, tuberculosis 25, typhoid fever 6.

MALTA.-Week ended July 8, 1911. Population 213,395. Total number of deaths from all causes 139, including measles 6, tuberculosis 4, typhoid fever 4.

Week ended July 15, 1911. Total number of deaths from all causes not reported. The deaths include measles 10, typhoid fever 2.

PORTO RICO.-Month of March, 1911. Population 1,118,012. Total number of deaths from all causes 2,237, including diphtheria 3, tuberculosis 233, typhoid fever 29.

Month of April, 1911. Total number of deaths from all causes 2,021, including diphtheria 1, measles 3, smallpox 1, tuberculosis 204, typhoid fever 28.

TURKEY-Saloniki.-Four weeks ended July 13, 1911. Population. 200,000. Total number of deaths from all causes 105, including tuberculosis 23, typhoid fever 3.

By authority of the Secretary of the Treasury:

WALTER WYMAN,
Surgeon General,

United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.

No case of cholera has been reported as having developed in the United States since those recorded in the Public Health Reports of July 28.

Notification was given August 5, 1911, by telegraph, to quarantine authorities at Atlantic coast ports that in addition to Naples and Palermo, Trieste, Marseille, Smyrna, and Genoa, were regarded as cholera-infected ports.

NEW YORK.

Passed Asst. Surg. R. H. von Ezdorf reported August 11 the arrival of the French steamship Venezia from Marseille, Naples, and Palermo with 109 members in the crew, and 18 cabin and 681 steerage passen

A boatswain who embarked at Marseille had sickened August 3 with what was suspected to be cholera, and one steerage passenger who embarked at Naples had sickened August 7 and died August 8 of what clinically was regarded as cholera. Specimens were being examined at the quarantine laboratory. August 12 he reported that the diagnosis of the clinical case of cholera on the steamship Venezia had been confirmed bacteriologically and that the boatswain who had been suspected of suffering with cholera was found after like examination to be free from the disease. The passengers were being detained on board.

On August 14, Dr. von Ezdorf further reported that the passengers were still being detained on board and that bacteriological examination was being made of 300 specimen swabs taken on August 12, 163 taken on August 13, 218 taken on August 14, and that specimens were to be taken from members of the crew August 14.

DATA REGARDING OPERATIONS OF INFANTS' MILK DEPOTS IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1910.

[Prepared by direction of the Surgeon General.]

By J. W. KERR, Assistant Surgeon General, United States Public Health and MarineHospital Service.

In previous compilations regarding infants' milk depots in the United States facts were presented which indicated briefly the extent of the operations of a majority of those institutions in 1907 and 1909.1

Bull. No. 41, Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Public Health Reports, Vol. XXV, No. 39, Sept. 30, 1910.