Hygienic and medical reports / by medical officers of the U.S. Navy ; prepared for publication ... by Joseph B. Parker, assistant to the Bureau.

Date:
1879
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Credit: Hygienic and medical reports / by medical officers of the U.S. Navy ; prepared for publication ... by Joseph B. Parker, assistant to the Bureau. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The periodical and continued fevers are met witli, but do not prevail so extensively as they do in Yokohama. Small-pox is rarely if ever epidemic. Venereal diseases abound. I am in- formed that goitre prevails to some extent among* the natives. The Japanese have quite a large hospital here, superintended by a European physician. The vast maj ority of the cases treated here are cases of venereal. On the 27th of June we sailed from Kobe, en route for Naga- saki, arriving at the latter place on the morning of the 30th. Hagasciki.—IS'agasaki, one of the five imj^erial cities of Jajjan, is situated on the northeastern side of the harbor of the same name, in latitude 32° 44', longitude 129o 48'. The site of the city itself is level, and is completely surrounded by high hills, which are tolerably wooded at their base, but become bare toward their summits. The rainy season is uncertain, but generally commences about Maj' j lasts till July. During the past year beautiful weather i^revailed during the months of August and September. It rained almost incessantly during these two months the previous year. The temperature of i^agasaki is moderate, never reaching the extremes of either heat or cold. The moderate climate of ]Na- gasaki during the winter is doubtless due to the presence of the Japanese current, which bathes the southern shore of all these islands. The water is very good, and is about the best to be found in Japan. Malaria prevails to a very slight extent, and what there is chiefly originates in the large rice-marshes to the north of the harbor. Small-pox is not frequent. Venereal disease prevails more extensively than in any other city of Japan that I have seen. There is quite an extensive Japanese hospital, under the charge of Dr. Van Laren, a Dutch physician. The hospital