Throughout the months of spring, wh

Throughout the months of spring, when we were suhjected to abnormally dry weather and frequent sandstorms, many people suffered from a low form of renittent fever; and later on, during the wet and steamy weather of summer, enteric, severer forms of malaria, diarrhoeas, dysentery, and liver disorders prevailed. There were a few cases of heat exhaustion, but none of heatstroke. Winter and late autumn were fairly healthy seasons.There was no epidemic of any contagious disease.One family arrived from Shanghai with a child suffering from scarlet fever，and within io days of their arrival all members of the family，including both parents，contracted the disease；but its spread was limited to the one household and did not extend to any other families.Small-pox raged as usual during spring amongst the native population，but foreigners，with one exception，escaped.I give below a tabular statement of the major cases of sickness I met with during the year；it includes cases of more severe sickness requiring hospital or special home treatment，and is exclusive of the numerous cases of mild remittent fever prevalent throughout the community and cases of accident，and is intended to give one some idea of the forms of disease met with here：—