FOREIGN REPORTS.

AUSTRALIA.

Sydney-Examination of Rats.

During the four weeks ended November 23, 1912, there were examined at Sydney for plague infection 1,433 rats.

No plague

infected rat was found.

At Habana rats were examined for plague infection as follows: Week ended December 14, 1912, 469 rats; week ended December 21, 1912, 467 rats; week ended December 28, 1912, 618 rats. No plagueinfected rat was found.

JAPAN.

Status of Cholera.

Surg. Irwin, at Yokohama, reports:

The number of cases reported in Japan continues to decline. During the week ended December 7, 1912, 85 cases were reported, as against 94 for the preceding week. The total number of cases reported from the beginning of the epidemic to December 7, 1912, was 2,647. In Yokohama the number of cases reported during the week ended December 7 was 6, as against 9 in the preceding week, with a total of 49 cases since the beginning of the epidemic, of which number 9 occurred on vessels arriving from other ports.

SENEGAL.

Yellow Fever at Dakar.

Yellow fever was reported present at Dakar, Senegal, December 7, 1912.

SPAIN.

Epidemic Smallpox.

An epidemic of smallpox was reported present in Spain December 7, the disease being notably prevalent in Barcelona city and province and at Tarragona, Almeria, and Malaga. The number of cases present in Barcelona was not reported, but it was stated that the epidemic had reached large proportions, 16 deaths from the disease having been officially reported for the week ended December 7, 1912.

MOVEMENTS OF INFECTED VESSELS.

Cholera.

BOSNIAN. At Odessa, Russia, November 18, 1912, from London via Constantinople, 2 cases, with 1 death.

Plague.

River

BELLAILSA.-At Hamburg, Germany, September 2 to 5, 1912, from Rosario July 2 via Cape Verde Islands, 2 cases in crew. Tyne, September 28, 1912, from Hamburg, 1 case in crew.

Yellow Fever.

PUEBLA.-At Laguna del Carmen, Mexico, September 14, 1912, from Vera Cruz and other Mexican ports, 1 case on board.

CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE, AND SMALLPOX.

Reports Received During Week Ended Jan. 10, 1913.

CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE, AND SMALLPOX-Continued. Reports Received During Week Ended Jan. 10, 1913-Continued.

CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE AND SMALLPOX-Continued. Reports Received from Dec. 27, 1912, to Jan. 3, 1913.