DANISH WEST INDIES. Quarantine against Venezuela replaced by sanitary inspection
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Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in the World This article is one of nearly 500,000 scholarly works digitized and made freely available to everyone in the world by JSTOR. Known as the Early Journal Content, this set of works include research articles, news, letters, and other writings published in more than 200 of the oldest leading academic journals. The works date from the mid-‐seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. We encourage people to read and share the Early Journal Content openly and to tell others that this resource exists. People may post this content online or redistribute in any way for non-‐commercial purposes. Read more about Early Journal Content at http://about.jstor.org/participate-‐jstor/individuals/early-‐ journal-‐content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-‐for-‐profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. January 13, 1899 7 8 water front just east of the Prado. These two camps are in dangerous localities. Very respectfully, W. F. Brunner, Sanitary Inspector , TJ. 8. M. H. 8 . The Supervising Surgeon-General, TJ. 8. Marine- Hospital Service . Mortality of the city of Habana for the week ended Thursday , January 5, 1899. Cause of death. Total. Yellow fever 1 Borras fever 1 Enteric fever 17 Pernicious fever 9 Malarial fever 50 Grippe 2 Dysentery 14 Enteritis 68 Hydrophobia 1 Starvation 1 Pneumonia 5 Tuberculosis 40 Deaths from all causes 341 Annual ratio per 1,000 83. 66 DANISH WEST INDIES. Quarantine against Venezuela replaced by sanitary inspection. Legation of the United States, Copenhagen, December 15, 1898 « Sir : I have the honor to report that on the 11th ultimo the govern- ment of the Danish West Indies replaced the quarantine declared against ships arriving from Puerto Cabello, Valencia, La Guayra, and Caracas, Venezuela, by sanitary inspection. 1 have the honor to be, etc., Lauritz S. Swenson. non. secretary of »TÄTE, Washington , I). V. ITALY. Quarantine against plague - Order No. 3 - Maritime sanitation . [Translated in this Bureau from copy of order officially forwarded.] The existence of bubonic plague having been officially reported in the presidency of Madras and the island of Madagascar, in view of the law of December 22, 1888, and maritime sanitary orders of May 8, 1897, -and July 15, 1897, it is decreed - The ports of the presidency of Madras and the island of Madagascar are declared infected with bubonic plague and the regulations laid down in the orders cited above are therefore in force against said ports and island. Prefects of maritime provinces, sanitary police authori- ties, and port officials of the kingdom are charged with carrying this order into effect. Marrengo, Minister of the Interior .