Show FEDERAL HOSPITALS Interesting Reports On Leprosy Bubonic Bu-bonic and Yellow Fever Washington Dec 5Surgeon General Gen-eral Wyman of the marine hospital service submitted his annual report to Secretary Gage It shows that during I the fiscal year ended June 30 1897 the total number of patients treated at hospitals and the dispensaries connected con-nected with the service was 54477 Although Al-though the total number of patients treated was 673 in excess of those treated during the previous fiscal year the expenditures were 538536 which is 21000 less than the previous year i The number of immigrants inspected by officers of th s < > at the various I ports aggregated 232147 The appearance of cholera in Japan and China he says is now a matter i of greater moment to the United States I than at any previous time owing to the rapid growth of commerce between those countries and the Pacific coast Smallpox is reported as having appeared I ap-peared in 16 states between Nov 1 1896 and Nov 1 1S97 In the year previous pre-vious it appeared in 22 states The prevalence of the bubonic plague in i the eastern hemisphere has offered anew i a-new problem for the consideration of the health authorities of the United States The disease is reported as increasing in-creasing at present in northern India The report of the international leprosy lep-rosy conference held in Berlin in October Oc-tober gives a somewhat imperfect statement of the number of cases of leprosy in the different countries of the world there being approximately 130000 in India 20000 in Japan 2500 in Hawaii 1200 in Russia 700 in Calcutta 250 in the United States The total number of cases of yellow fever reported to the bureau up to Nov 20 was 4198 and the number of deaths 423 Of these there were 1722 I cases and 244 deaths in New Orleans |