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YELLOW FEVER.
There is little to remark respecting this disease beyond the fact that it
continues endemic in those places in tropical and sub-tropical latitudes
recognised as its special habitat, and where it is sufficiently deadly.
In Brazil, Cuba, the States of Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica; at
Honduras, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, San Domingo, and in French West Africa,
this disease has been reported.
Modern research, in exposing the probable origin and method of propagation
of the disease by insect hosts, has indicated the lines for its suppression.
The results so far are encouraging, Cuba, the home of this disease, having
been free from the disease for nearly three years, until last year, when a few
cases occurred, probably as a result of some relaxation of the stringent
precautions in force during the previous years.
Two cases of this disease were reported by the Master of a vessel arriving
at Gravesend. The patients had been removed to hospital at Buenos Ayres,
and the vessel thoroughly disinfected there. All persons being well on arrival
at Gravesend, no further precautions were necessary. As the vessel was
technically infected, the facts were reported to the Local Government Board.

PLAGUE.
During the year 1906 Plague continued its ravages throughout almost the
whole world, but in India there is some evidence that the disease is diminishing
in virulence.
In 1905 there were notified in the Indian Empire about 1,000,000 cases of
Plague.
As an example of the virulence of this disease, the outbreak in the City of
Poona may be mentioned—the population of which, with the cantonments,
being nearly 150,000; of these, 9,000 persons were attacked, and 8,000 died
during a period of about four months.