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MEDICAL INSPECTION. From 1st January to 31st December, 1938.

	Jan.	Feb.		March.		April.		May.		June.		July.	August	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Total.
No. Medically Inspected	185	172		194		177		202		196		178	197	194	194	159	188	2,236
No. of Passengers	1,349	1,403		2,523		1,778		3,596		3,640		3,615	3,082	2,817	2,283	1,535	1,606	29,227
No. of Crews	6,342	6,478		6,756		7,494		7.573		6,541		5,240	6,334	6,275	6.387	6,267	6,765	78,452
No. of Foreign Arrivals	1,031	984		1,101		1,029		] ,156		1,101		1,161	1,140	1,087	1,158	1,064	1,022	13,034
(b) Sheerness.
	Jan.		Feb.		March		April		May		June	July	August	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Total.
No. Medically Inspected	19		16		18		19		31		31	31	26	21	22	15	13	262
No. of Passengers	—		—		—		—		—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
No. of Crews	461		405		407		531		719		741	733	648	509	544	397	345	6,440
No. of Foreign Arrivals	61		64		64		58		70		74	73	74	66	68	59	54	785

Infectious Disease.

disease.	1929.	1930.	1931.	1932.	1933.	1934.	1935.	1936.	1937.	Mean Annual No. for 10 year9 ending 31st Dec., 1938.	1938.
(a) Cases Reported:
Cholera (including suspected cases)	2	1	1	3	—	—	—	—	—	0.8	1
Yellow Fever (ditto)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-	—
Plague (ditto)	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1	—
Smallpox	22	11	14	14	4	11	4	9	—	9.3	4
Scarlet Fever	11	29	7	12	21	7	9	10	6	12.8	16
Diphtheria	17	9	16	10	7	13	5	16	3	10.5	9
Enteric Fever	46	25	23	23	29	23	16	29	28	27.8	36
Measles	48	50	11	25	26	38	41	16	57	36.1	49
German Measles	9	6	3	22	4	5	8	4	6	9.2	25
Erysipelas	4	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2.3	4
Typhus Fever	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	_	1	0.2	—
Continued Fever	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1	—
Relapsing Fever	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Tuberculosis:—
Pulmonary	126	116	147	135	148	114	133	120	94	120.8	75
Other kinds	7	4	4	4	1	9	1	—	2	3.5	3
Other diseases (including Chicken
pox)	653	904	1,118	791	460	516	647	543	508	668.0	540
Total	946	1,158	1,346	1,041	701	1 738	867	749	707	901.5	762
(b) Treated in Port Sanitary Hospital:
Cholera (including suspected cases)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Yellow Fever (ditto)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Plague (ditto)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Smallpox	4	—	—	—_	—_	—	—	—_	—	0.6	2
Typhus Fever	—	—	—__	—_	——_	——_	2*	—	—	0.2	—
Scarlet Fever	7	12*	—	4	15	5	2	1	2	6.2	14
Diphtheria	5	3	1	4	4	2	1	14*	1	4.0	5
Enteric Fever	23	9	4	9	6	11	6	9	7	9.6	12
Measles	18‡	**12	—	1	2	13	10	5	37	12.6	28‡
Erysipelas	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	0.2	1
Parotitis	—	—	21	2	4	4	5*	1	2	4.3	4
Continued Fever	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Other diseases (including Chickenpox)	30	19*	23*	33	22	21	26	36	65	40.9	** 133
Total	87	56	49	53	53	56	52	66	115	78.6	199