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INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The total number of cases of Infectious Disease of all kinds reported on
vessels entering the Port during the year was 336, a number largely in excess
of the average for the previous five years.
Table IV. gives particulars of these, from which it will be seen that Scarlet
Fever heads the list with 82 cases, of which 28 were treated in the Port
Sanitary Hospital, Enteric Fever being next in frequency with 81 cases, 27
being treated in the Port Sanitary Hospital. Of Measles, 68 cases were
reported, but only three were treated at Denton Hospital, the remainder being
cases which occurred either on one of the training ships, or on vessels during
the voyage.
The total number of cases treated in the Port Sanitary Hospital was 91,
the average number for the five preceding years being 79'6.
CHOLERA.
There appears to have been no outbreak of Cholera on the Continent of
Europe during the year 1906, though a few cases were reported in the early
part of the year in certain parts of Western Russia.
Cholera existed, of course, in India, especially in the Bengal Presidency
where, up to August, some 130,000 persons died.
Cholera also existed in Siam, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, and the Philippine
Islands suffered from a severe epidemic.
A few cases occurred in Japan, and also at Shanghai, Foochow and Hong
Kong.
The following Table gives a list of the vessels arriving at Gravesend
reporting that cases of Cholera had occurred during the voyage, and so were
technically infected according to the Regulation of the Local Government Board
relating to Plague, Yellow Fever and Cholera. In each instance full particulars
were sent to the Local Government Board:—