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Show oo NINTYSIX CASES OF MEASLES Ninety-six cascB of measles arc now under quarantine, the 'number having steadily increased during the pnst three weeks. No deaths have yet been reported as directly due to tho disease The preBent epidemic Is ono of the most severe sieges of tho dlBease that tho city has ever experienced. During Dur-ing the month of May there were 227 cases reported. It Is likely that a great many caBes oxlBlod during the month that were never reported by the families or the attending physicians. physi-cians. Tho sanitary offlcors have repeatedly repeated-ly reported that the number of cases under their surveillance was decreasing decreas-ing and thnt more cases were being released than reported, yet the total number of cases under quarantine has been growing each day. Criticism has been attached to a number of physicians, physi-cians, who aro alleged to be negligent in reporting cases of the disease. During the month of May there were five casos of smallpox, eight cases of chickenpox, one case of typhoid ty-phoid fover and two cases of pneumonia. pneu-monia. Twenty-four deaths occurred In Ogden Og-den during the month and thirty-two births. |