OCR Text |
Show HEALTH OF THE CITY IN GOOD CONDITION Less than one-fifth of the number of contagious and infectious diseases were reported in Salt Lake City for the week ended February 5, 1915, as compared with the corresponding week of last year. In 1914 there was a total of 84 cases reported for the week; last week there were only. 15 cases reported, including: in-cluding: Slumps, 3; scarlet fever, 1; measles, 1; whoopingcough, 2; chicken-pox, chicken-pox, 6. During the week just ended there were reported a total of 49 births, of which. 20 were boys and 29 girls. A total of 22 deaths were reported, of which 15 were males and 7 females. The . report of the district school nurses for the week ended February 5, 1915, is as follows: Visits to schools, 87; rooms visited, 704; number examined, 3773; number inspected, 21,204; permits issued, 545; permits refused, 5t; excluded, 46; referred re-ferred to medical inspector, 19: cultures takes, S; minor dressings, 23; homo visits, 39; parents to schools, 54. Causes foi- exclusions Scabies, 3; pediculosis, 9; tonsilitis, 4; eye infection, infec-tion, 5 : unclassified, 14; suspected mumps, 6; suspected diphtheria, 4; suspected sus-pected L'hickenpox, 1. Medical and surgical treatments obtained ob-tained Adenoids, "6; enlarged tonsils, 6; defective vision, 2; unclassified, 1. |