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Show REPORT SHOWS INCREASE IN TYPHOID PATIENTS Contagion and Infection show a de-cldod de-cldod Increase in tho weekly report of the city health board, submitted Saturday. There were 31 cases of contagion and Infection In-fection reported in the week Just ended. Tho Increase Is In typhoid fever. Of tho 31 cases reported 20 wero of typhoid and 6 cases at tho hospitals or the city that developed outsldo tho city and wero brought In for treatment aro not included In the report. Tho rest of the enscs or contagion and Infection are distributed as follows: Diphtheria, 3; scarlet fever, 4; chlckenpox, 1; other contagion, 3. This leaves 18 houses under quarantine on account of scarlet fover, 2 on account of diphtheria and 2 on account of other contagion. Births again exceeded deaths, there being 39 of tho former, as against only ZH of the latter. Of the births 21 were boys and 18 girls; of tho deaths, 19 males and 9 females. Three bodies wero brought hero for burial. |