Show A BOARD OF HEALTH REPQRT DEATH BATE 720 AGAINST 857 A YEAR AGO Report for Last Week Shows Reduction Reduc-tion of Three in Scarlet Fever and Increase of Ono in Typhoid 1 The report of lie Board of Health for the month of December shows 42 j deaths as against EO for the corresponding month of ISJS making lie death rate per thousand 720 as agalndt S7 In December 1S9S The causes of death are typhoid fever 3 phthisis pulmonalls J broncho pneumonia 2 pneumonia 1 old ago 5 morphine poison 1 measles 1 and various other causes Of the dead I 21 were males and IS females 15 were I married IS single D j widowers and 4 1 widows During the month one case of l smallpox Samuelson was reported In the city and one outside Kay brought I to the pesthouse ten case of whooping J cough 13 of scarlet fever 1 of diphtheria I diph-theria and 0 j of typhoid fever were reported j I re-ported The births were 112 of whom GO were males CO females and 2 the sex of which was not given At the crematory crema-tory 201 loads of garbage were destroyed de-stroyed I Tho report of the board for last week showed 10 births of whom 12 were males I and 7 females deaths 13 of whom 8 were moles and 5 females bodies brought from other places for Interment I here J contagious disease flags outstanding out-standing 18 covering 20 cases of scarlet fever one case of typhoid fever was repeated There were no cases of smallpox small-pox reported last week and the 10 patients pa-tients In the pesthouse were reported as doing well The week before last 9 cases of smallpox were reported and there were 23 scarlet fever cases I against 20 last week and one typhoid case last week against none the week I before I |