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Show I ; HEALTH BOARD ISSUES i ITS MONTHLY REPORT A total of 240 births, as against J 10 , deaths, was recorded with the health department de-partment during tho month. The births were 11S boys and 122 girls: of the , deaths, 60 were males and o0 fomales. Measle3 killed three children In Salt Lake during .Taiiuury, while scarlet fever, smallpox, diphtheria and typhoid , fever claimed not a single victim. Whooping rough also killed ono child and pneumonia pneu-monia claimed ton victims. This Is tho showing of the monthly ro-; ro-; port of the health department, issued yesterday. The supposedly harmless dls-r dls-r rases appear to have been the chief vehicles vehi-cles of death, a point to which tho health authorities have called attention frequently fre-quently In Teccnt months. There was a total of nSn casen of measles to threo deaths, and the whooping whoop-ing cough took one out of four cascn. Of smallpox there were 117 cases: scar-lot scar-lot fever, eleven cases', diphtheria, four rases, and typhoid fever, four caseu. |