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Show 100P1 COUGH IS PREVALENT II CITV Board of Health Officials Will - Do -Utmost to Check Disease. Whooping cough is prevalent over the city, according to the weekly report re-port of the Board of Health, mad6 Saturday. Sat-urday. In fact, it amounts almost to an epidemic, and there is some fear that with tho opening of the schools Tuesday it may sweep over the city. Thirteen cases were reported for the week, but Dr. M. R. Stewart, health commissioner, says information has come to tho board that there arc scores of other cases. iu the city that have not boon reported." In some instances this may be due to the ignoranco of tho parents or those in charge of tho af-llictcd af-llictcd children. In other cases if. probably prob-ably is duo to neglect. In others it may result from inability to pay for medical attention, Dr. Stewart says. Somo may fail to report eases of whooping cough, through a feeling that thoro is nothing alarming or threatening threaten-ing in the disease, Dr. Stewart says, but this is an erroneous impression. Out of forty-two cases in June thoro were two deaths. Out of thirty-fivo cases in August thoro was a similar number of deaths. Negloct of this kind amounts almost to criminal negligence, Dr. Stewart holds. Duty of Public. If persons hearing of cases in the families of neighbors will report them to tho Board of Health, a physician will be sent out to make an examination examina-tion of the patient, aud. if the case is determined as whooping cough, quarantine quar-antine will be established. Dr. Stewart says. This probably is what several persona who have cases in their family arc trying to ovado by not reporting them to the health department. If the proper ovidenco can be gained against such persons prosecutions will follow. The. department will not be ablo to stamp out the disease beforo tho opening open-ing of school, but hopes to place it under control, with aid from citizens to whoso notice unreported cases may come. School teachers will bo asked to closely" observe pupils showing symptoms symp-toms of tho disease nnd report such to the Board of Health for examination. Typhoid fever ranked next to whooping whoop-ing cough, with nino cases. Throe cases of smallpox wero reported for tho week, making six under quarantine. There was one case of diphtheria, making twenty-six cases of contagious and infectious in-fectious diseases reported for the week. The births outnumbered the deaths more than three to one. There wero thirty-uino births and only eleven deaths nino males aud two females. Of these, two died elsewhere and wore shipped hero for burial. Of tho births, twenty-two were males and seventeen females. |