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Show Ii $1 BOYS LEAD GIRLS IN I ' 11 1 DUMBER OF BIRTHS m'W The report of the city board of health 'f1 ia for the week ending March IS shows an . '"Ji' M increase of ono birth and the same mini- ) i' 'jji.'Sa her of deaths us the week previous. There I '( ' Ira wi-rc fifty-seven births the past week, of I ' S which thirty word boys and twenty-seven i rt'lll' fl wore girls, while the week before there ''1''S wore tifty-sfrc births. Tho past week 1 11 !l showed nineteen deaths, the samo as tho i l 1 -week before, of which ten were males .liif a"d nine wore females. There were ' ' v'r-lS eleven bodies shipped into the city for . jl burial in the week. ' 'm, 8 Thcro was a slight Increase In the num- !, 1 j!l "I ber of contagious dlscnscs reported the , (. I J j :JS past week, as compared to the week be- o I'J'tJI fore, there being fifty-eight cases re- 1 w ported, as against forty-livu for tho prc- , , Hjl '8 vlous week. At the close of the week 1 1 ' .'I!! there were eighty-six houses under iunr- U t' 1 antlnc because of contagion, and three r Ihf il patients remained in quarantine at the , 'jwjtS'fl Isolation hospital. |