Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, For the Year 1887, Transmitted to Congress, With a Message of the President, June 26, 1888

No. 409.
Mr. Hubbard to Mr. Bayard.

[Extract.]

Legation of the United States,
Tokio , December 10, 1886. (Received January 3, 1887.)

No. 259.]

Sir: As a supplement to my former dispatches advising the Department of State from time to time of the progress and fatal results of the recent cholera epidemic in Japan, I have the honor herewith to transmit the latest statistics, translated from the Japanese Official Gazette, giving a complete summary to date of the number of cases and deaths which have occurred in this country since the outbreak of the plague in the present year. The rate of mortality is almost unprecedented, and well calculated to awaken our own authorities at home to the utmost vigilance in guarding against the importation and introduction of the disease to the United States from infected countries.

Since forwarding my No. 232 I have had interviews with several eminent medical gentlemen long resident in Japan. They express the fear, as indicated in my last dispatch on this subject, that cholera here, as in India, will probably eventually become epidemic, as it has been for several consecutive years past declared to have been epidemic.

I have, etc.,

Richard B. Hubbard.

[Inclosure in No. 259.]

Since the outbreak of the cholera in Japan this year, to the 6th instant, the following number of cases and deaths have occurred:

	Number of cases.	Deaths.
Tokyo fu	12,034	8,259
Kyoto	3,205	2,481
Osaka	20,538	15,821
Kanagawa prefecture	5,952	3,743
Hiogo prefecture	6,701	5,119
Nagasaki prefecture	2,383	1,518
Niigata prefecture	9,102	5,154
Saitama prefecture	961	528
Chiba prefecture	3,464	2,152
Ibaraki prefecture	868	539
Gumma prefecture	313	211
Tochigi prefecture	559	285
Miye prefecture	1,419	1,066
Aiche prefecture	1,128	8,278
Shizuoka prefecture	629	184
Yamanashi prefecture	1,156	589
Shiga prefecture	414	248
Gifu prefecture	338	202
Nagano prefecture	4,267	2,168
Miyagi prefecture	1,317	868
Fukushima prefecture	249	149
Iwate prefecture	482	312
Aomori prefecture	5,778	2,655
Yamagata prefecture	2,225	1,441
Akita prefecture	4,917	12,461
Fukui prefecture	6,665	4,819
Ishika prefecture	4,214	3,094
Toyama prefecture	16,224	10,003
Tittori prefecture	790	488
Shimane prefecture	1,743	1,001
Okayama prefecture	2,705	1,702
Hiroshima prefecture	7,590	5,298
Yamaguchi prefecture	3,679	2,235
Wakayama prefecture	3,072	2,180
Tokushima prefecture	938	588
Yehime prefecture	5,311	3,183
Kochi prefecture	1,853	1,253
Fukuoka prefecture	1,646	1,045
Oita prefecture	1,499	888
Saga prefecture	1,216	739
Kumamoto prefecture	571	272
Miyasaki prefecture	22	16
Kagoshima prefecture	38	16
Okinawa-ken	926	662
Hokkaido
The Sapporo division	929	652
The Hakodata division	1,894	1,847
The Nemuro division	6	1,347
Total	153,930	100,492