Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-11-14 | Page 15 | Busy Grim Reaper Beats Lazy Stork

Ml GBIM BEAPER ' BEATS Iffl 5101 Deaths Show Increase, While i If if Births Fall Oil'; Health of K LM City Good. '11111 Tho report of the city board ol. lllIElrlll health.. for the week ending November j lllffifij jB 12 shows a decrease of in the Hum- Ilia ft K I ber of births and an increase of 1 iu Ilnilf- 1 IH deaths, as comparod with the previous n, I'H week. The.ro was a dceiase of S in iw ilill the number of contagions, and in fee- j ViXu tv t jH nous diseases. The tntal number of llilli fi .! births for the week was UO. of which SlilffiP.fi ' ll 15 wore boys and U were girlr.. There itllflF?' ' were l'5 deaths, of which 15 were males SfilSt 'iP'11 and 10 were females. Hlifl Lr'j Kifty-threo cases of infectious anil J Mils'' contagious diseases were reported dur 3uilt?'tl ing the week, as conipared with (U J'or i SaHflr''' tho previous week. The diseases re- j iS I $'o ll )ortel aro as follows: Smallpox, !: 8 Jllfi iflfc diphtheria, :t: typhoid fever. !, us com- ilSjjlill jl pan.'d with 15 for the pruvious week; 111' nit Vl 1 scjirlet fever, 21; measles, 1; chicken- ;U' Ten houses remained 'iu quarantine uIIIh i tt at the- close of the week on account of olllllfl M smallpox; u" on account of scarlet fev- Slljjjl t j'1 ' cr, aul -1 oh account of diphtheria. Only umi - jil: tLwM L cilo of smallpox remained iu iiar- il'llll if : autiuo at the isolation hospital. liril f r'