to inform you that after careful consideration of the whole subject your recommendations contained in letter of April 18, 1895, are approved, as follows:

Vessels entering at Port Angeles should be admitted on the local quarantine officer's certificate, provided their port of destination is Port Angeles, or any port situated on the waters of the Straits of Fuca or Washington Sound, but if the vessel's destination is any point on Puget Sound, or she receives orders to proceed to some point on said sound while making one of the above-named places a port of call for orders, said vessel must in that case call at Port Townsend for the inspection of the United States quarantine officer.

Vessels from foreign ports other than those of British Columbia bound for any port on Puget Sound shall be subject to quarantine inspection at Port Townsend. Vessels from British Columbia carrying persons or effects of persons nonresident in America for sixty days next preceding arrival shall also be inspected.

Respectfully, yours,

WALTER WYMAN,

Supervising Surgeon-General, Marine-Hospital Service. MEDICAL OFFICER IN COMMAND PORT TOWNSEND QUARANTINE,

Port Townsend, Washington.

DIVISION OF SANITARY REPORTS AND STATISTICS.

This division is under the charge of a medical officer of the Service, and is chiefly concerned in the collection of sanitary information and statistics, both domestic and foreign, and in the compilation of such matter for publication in the abstract of sanitary reports, published weekly by the Supervising Surgeon-General, Marine-Hospital Service, under authority of the law of February 15, 1893.

In this division press reports relative to the existence of quarantinable disease are investigated by mail or telegraph, when there has been failure on the part of State or local health officials to report the same. Queries relative to the existence of yellow fever, etc., are answered, correspondence with the health officials of the suspected locality being entered upon-if no reports are on file showing the existence or nonexistence of the disease in question.

Tables showing the prevalence of smallpox in the United States are prepared weekly, in addition to which the existence of yellow fever and cholera throughout the world is shown from week to week in tabular form in the abstract of sanitary reports.

Weekly mortality reports are received from upward of 120 cities and towns of the United States, these reports being made on blank forms furnished the local health officers by this office. In addition to these weekly reports, monthly reports of cities, and yearly and monthly reports of States are regularly received and prepared for publication. A table showing the yearly mortality in 199 cities and towns in the United States, as well as the death rate, computed on both the popu lation of the United States Census of 1890, and on the estimated population (as reported by the health officers), was published in the abstract of sanitary reports during the year, and is herewith appended. MORTALITY TABLE, CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES, YEAR 1894.

MORTALITY TABLE, CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES, YEAR 1894-Continned.

*Not reported.

a White, 59; colored, 102.

21.500

b White, 479; colored, 1,300. Population, white, 28,870; colored, 36,295. Rate, white, 16.58, color

35.80.

396

21, 261

18.62

Total deaths

from all

causes.

MORTALITY TABLE, CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES, YEAR 1894-Continued.

Cities.

*Not reported.

2, 181

133, 896

16.28

150,000

14.54

175

11,760

14.88

(*)

100

6,567

15.22

(*)

8,710

451.770

19.27

540,000

16. 12

567

a White, 401; colored, 270. Population, white, 31,273; colored, 912. Rate, white, 12.11; colored, 29.63. White, 156; colored, 263.

White, 4,272; colored, 2,571. Population, white, 195,000; colored, 80,000. Rate, white, 21.91; colored, 32.14.

MORTALITY TABLE, CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES, YEAR 1894-Continued.

Reports are received from the commissioners of immigration at New York and Philadelphia, showing the arrival of immigrants at those ports. Regular weekly reports are forwarded from United States quar antine stations, stating the date and arrival of vessels, port of depar ture, destination, and treatment of vessel or cargo at quarantine, and date of leaving the station.

Any amendments in the quarantine regulations of the United States are printed in the abstract of sanitary reports, and where reports of inspection of State or local quarantines show them to be insufficiently equipped for the proper disinfection of infected vessels notification as to the disposition to be made of such vessels arriving at these quaran tines is issued in the same publication.

Weekly and monthly mortality reports of foreign cities are forwarded by the United States consuls and consular agents, in accordance with the law of February 15, 1893, and published. Such reports vary in number between 120 and 150. Sanitary reports of foreign countries and cities, and special reports of sanitary interest, are also transmitted