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Show (DECIDED INCREASE IS SliM 18 BIRTH RATE Fifty-Three Houses Arc Visited by Stork During Past Week. . The births" reported to the city board of health during tho past week showed a'decided increase as compared with tho number reported' tho previous week. The' report of the board shows 53 .births tho past week, whilo in tho week before i:hero were only' 28. Tho number of deaths, reported showed equally as heavy a decreaso as compared with the week previous.. Tho number reported this last week was 30, whilo in the. week bV-Wo there were 3.0 deaths re'-'! ported. , I Of tho WctliB, 35 were males and IS females. C? tho deaths 30 wore males j and 9 females. Thcro wore threo bodies I shipped into tho city during tho week fpr burial. j Tho report on contagious and infectious infec-tious diseases also showed a substantial decreiso the pnst week as compared to tho previous one, the total number of cases reported boing 41, whilo the prior week showed 08. At tho close of tho week there wero 97 houses under quarantine for vnrious contagious dis; eases, whilo thofo wqro 8 cases of con-, con-, tagions under quarantine at the isolation isola-tion hospital. |