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Show IBQPIMHIS BECOME EPIOEMIC Vigorous Measures Against Disease Dis-ease . lieing Taken by Health Commissioner. - During the past week thero have been reported twenty-five cases of whooping cough and City Health Commissioner Com-missioner S. 6. Paul has como to the conclusion that it is time to start a vigorous campaign to check tho further fur-ther spread of the disease. With tliis end in view, tho strictest quarantine possible will bo mainlnined and Dr. Paul .is, calling upon the doctors and pecple of the city to seCf that every case is promptly reported. The inspectors of the health board have bten detailed to thoroughly look over tht city to locate all cases, which wili be immediately quarantined. Dr. Paul is of the opinion that there is too much carelessness concerning the disease and people fail to renlize its seriousness. Among children under the age of three years it is one of the most fatal diseases. The city this year has been exceedingly free from all forms of disease and Dr. Paul is desirous de-sirous of keeping it so. and he. will bend every possible effort to check whooping cough at onco beTorc xherc is a in' further spread. Of forty-eight cases of contagious and infectious diseaso reported during the week there were ten cases of diphtheria, one case of typhoid fever, three cases of mumps, one case of erysipelas, ery-sipelas, three cases of scarlet fever, two cases of measles, twenty-five i cases of whooping cough, one case of chickon pox. At the present time one house is under un-der quaranlino for sniadpox, twelve houses on account of scarlet tovor, twelve on account of diphtheria. There were reported during tho week forty-seven births, of which thirty were males and seventeen females. A. total of thirtv-ono deaths were reported report-ed during the week, of which seventeen seven-teen wero males and fourteen females. |