Office of the Historian

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:

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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