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December 
10, 
1897 
1556 
Smallpox has not increased much during the past week. The number 
of cases will not exceed 50. 
Yery 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 and the town 
of Eegla for the week 
ended 
Thursday 
, Decem- 
ber 2, 1897. 
Habana. Regia. Total. 
Yellow 
fever 
 
10 
10 
20 
Enteric 
fever 
 
 
22 
22 
Pernicious 
fever 
 
10 
10 
Malarial 
fever 
 
21 
8 
29 
Smallpox 
 
2  
2 
Caquexia 
paludica 
 
25 
1 
26 
Enteritis 
 
  
104 
17 
121 
Dysentery 
 
 
42 
26 
68 
Diarrhea 
 
15 
2 
17 
Pneumonia 
 
10 
4 
14 
Tuberculosis 
 
55 
6 
61 
Starvation 
 
4  
4 
Deaths 
from 
all causes 
 
465 
86 
551 
Annual 
ratio 
per 1,000 
 
143. 
6Q 
DANISH WEST INDIES. 
Quarantine 
against Bahia on account of smallpox 
. 
Washington, December 6 , 1897. 
Sir : By the direction of the Secretary of State, I have the honor to 
inclose for your information copy of an unnumbered dispatch of the 
18th ultimo, from our minister at Copenhagen, reporting that the gov- 
ernment of the Danish West Indies has declared a quarantine of fifteen 
days against vessels from Bahia on account of epidemic variola, which 
prevails there in a mrticularlv malignant form. 
Respectfully, yours, 
William E. Day, 
Assistant 
Secretary. 
Hon. Secretary of the Treasury. 
[Inclosure.] 
Legation of the United States, 
Copenhagen 
, November 
18, 1897. 
Sie : I have the honor 
to inclose 
a notice 
of declaration 
of quarantine 
of fifteen 
days 
against 
vessels from 
Bahia by the government 
of the Danish 
West Indies, 
on account 
of an epidemic 
of variola 
in particularly 
malignant 
form. 
I have the honor, 
etc., 
John E. Risley. 
Hon. Secretary of State. 
^Translation.]] 
The Minister 
of Foreign 
Affairs 
has the honor 
to present 
his compliments 
to the lega- 
tion of the United States of America 
and to inform 
it that the Government 
of the 
Danish Antilles 
- on account 
of an epidemic 
of smallpox 
which, 
according 
to a declara- 
tion published 
by the authorities 
of the island of Barbados, 
prevails 
at this time at 
Bahia, and which 
seems to be of a particularly 
malignant 
nature 
- has established 
a 
quarantine 
of fifteen 
days commencing 
on the 20th of last month, 
with respect 
to all 
vessels 
arriving 
from 
that port. 
Copenhagen, 
November 
17 , 1897.