Show WEEKS HEALTH REPORT I The mortality in Salt Lake City for Limo week ending December 20th is less than for tho preceding week but fourteen being be-ing reported as compared with seventeen for the previous week according to sox the number from each Is equal seven of each There was one fatal case of diphtheria diph-theria and tho name number of typhoid fever The mortality for the corresponding correspond-ing week of lost year was twentythroe Three bodies wero brought here for burial and a like number shipped away for interment in-terment at other places The births reported re-ported were ton males and eleven females As compared with the report for the game period of last year the morbidity of tho city shown an Improvomon loW I moro favorable than the reduction of the number of deaths Three now cases of scarlet fever were reported aa compared with four In the preceding week and twenlysK in the same week of JiOl rnd four having been rclea cd as cured loft eleven casc4 in detention In ten premise us against eightyfour for the corresponding corre-sponding week luat year The new cases of diphtheria decreased from ten last week to ono for the week Just closed nnd register a like decrease compared with tho same period of last year Four cases weN discharged as cured and one case havIng dIed left seven cases In quarantine quaran-tine as against fourteen for the same week List year The cimea of smallpox In quarantine were doubled by the development devel-opment and Importation of twelve new cases six of which were In one homo and three being nonreMdcnts coming here In fected by exposure at other paints namely name-ly I Mercur Park City and Salmon City Ida Tho total number now quarantined is twentyfour Of tho other diseases required re-quired to bo reported there were three of typhoid fever six of meaalcs nnd two of chickenpox The total number of cases of quaranllimble diseases now In the city is 4S for the same date last year there wero Ill |