Show SCARlET FEVER UNCHECKED Record of Fifteen Cases for Past Week Shows Situation Is IsI Still Serious Serio s I There Is 15 no diminution In the scarlet fever epidemic The number of cases during durin the past week was fifteen The week before the number was only thirteen and as the av average a average for the past two months has been about eighteen cases a week there seemed to be an encouraging decrease Now an increase is noted As has ben been b en stated in these columns column In Innumerable Innumerable innumerable numerable times the health department has never neer made an effort to locate the i source of ot the contagion but has limited its usefulness to tacking lacking quarantine signs on the places where patients are confined There was one case of smallpox during the week and the Isolation hospital was again opened There were reported also als one case of diphtheria three of or measles one of chick chickenpox chickenpox chIckenpox three of typhoid fever one of or pneumonia and one of ot whooping cough There were reported births eighteen males and females males and deaths fifteen males and thirteen females |