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MEDICAL INSPECTION.

From 1st January to 81st December, 1929.

	Jan.	Feb.		Marcli		A pril		May		June		July		August		Sept.		Oct.		Nov.		Dec		Total.
No. Medically Inspected	163	119		104		147		136		138		176		154		173		131		134		123		1,698
No. of Passengers	.3,204	2,185		3,114		4,336		7,101		7,376		13,576		14,093		6,005		4,841		3,619		3,600		73,050
No. of Crews	4,694	3,430		3,977		4,137		5,575		3,418		6,467		4,470		6,174		3,554		3,782		4,145		53,823
No. of Foreign Arrivals	1,029	729		902		988		1,106		1,077		1,154		1,130		1,094		1,069		964		974		12,216
(b) Sheerness.
	Jan.		Feb.		March		April		May		J une		July		August		Sept.		Oct.		Nov.		Dec.	Total-
No. Medically Inspected	17		9		15		18		20		23		34		25		30		28		23		12	254
No. of Passengers	-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-		-	-
No. of Crews	326		191		352		381		390		438		710		506		576		597		475		231	5,173
No. of Foreign Arrivals	43		24		48		54		60		42		53		26		33		29		39		36	487

Infectious Disease.

Disease.	1920.	1921.	1922.	1923.	1924.	1925.	1926.	1927.	1928.	Mean Annual No. for 10 years ending 31st Dec., 1929.	1929.
(a) Cases Reported :
Cholera (including suspected cases)	10	—	1	3	1	—	26	6	5	5.4	2
Yellow Fever (ditto)	2	—	—	—	—	—	2	—	—	.4	—
Plague (ditto)	6	8	9	4	1	3	1	—	2	3.5	1
Small-pox	27	9	17	12	17	27	20	14	8	17.3	22
Scarlet Fever	11	28	11	6	8	22	6	17	16	13.6	11
Diphtheria	21	20	44	29	23	23	13	13	13	21.6	17
Enteric Fever	51	44	29	49	42	49	50	36	72	46.8	46
Measles	513	60	20	82	46	77	94	21	47	100 .8	48
German Measles	12	8	—	19	18	14	7	5	65	15.7	9
Erysipelas	3	1	—	2	5	2	5	2	4	2.8	4
Typhus Fever	1	1	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	.3	—
Continued Fever	1	4	2	4	2	—	4	2	2	2.1	—
Relapsing Fever	—	—	—	2	—	—	—	—	1	.3	—
Tuberculosis:—
Pulmonary	67	54	44	83	90	82	86	82	86	80.0	126
Other kinds	2	2	4	6	6	11	2	1	4	4.5	7
Other diseases (including Chicken-pox)	766	310	348	336	319	363	471	667	499	473.2	653
Total	1,493	549	530	637	578	673	787	866	824	788.3	946
(b) Treated in Port SanitaryHospital:
Cholera (including suspected cases)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Yellow Fever (ditto)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Plague (ditto)	2	1*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3	—
Small-pox	10	—	—	3	—	3	5	3*	—	2.8	4
Scarlet Fever	3	13	2	—	6	16	8	5*	5	6.5	7
Diphtheria	4	3	3	1	1	4	2	6	9	3.8	5
Enteric Fever	11	13	9	10	13	6	14	6	20	12.5	23
Measles	35	6	5	1	8	7	9	7†	11	10.7	‡18
Erysipelas	1	—	—	2	1	—	2		1	.
Typhus Fever	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-
Continued Fever	1	3	—	2						.	-
Other diseases (including Chicken-pox)	13	9	14	10	31	39	23	20	29	21.8	30
Total	80	48	33	29	60	75	63	47	75	59.7	87