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Show HEALTH REPORT FOR MONTH OF DECEMBER Scarlet Fever Leads the Contagious Con-tagious Diseases, With 129 Cases. During the month of December thoro wore 222 cases of contagious and Infectious Infec-tious diseases reported to tho city board of henlth as shown by the monthly report of tho board, which was Issued Thursday. Thurs-day. Scarlet fever Is again In the lead of contagion, there being 129 cases of that disease reported during' the month. Of these II wore In tho First ward. 3S In the Second. in tho Third nnd S each In iho othor two wards of the city. Other diseases number 92. Tho total number of deaths during tho month was 121 ns compared with 89 for tho month of December, 190S. The annual an-nual death rate for each 1000 population for tltc month based on a total population In the city of S5.000 was 17.09 as compared com-pared with 12.S7 for the snme month In 100S. Tho total number of deaths for the year was 1279 There wero 167 births during the month, of which S7 were boys and SO were girls. All the hlrths reported were white children. chil-dren. Tho number of marriage licenses Issued during December was 201. Th report of tho sanitary department shows that the crematory disposed of 402 loads of garbage nnd destroyed 47 horses and 79 dogs. There were taken to the city garbago station 1251 loads of rubbish. Tho veterinary inspector condemned three cattle, two sheep, two hogs and 375 primal parts of animals. Ho inspected IU4 cattle, 2994 sheep, $264 hogs and 100 calves. |