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Show REPORT IS ISSUED BY HEALTH BOARD The stork was lazy and the angel of death busy in Salt Lake last week, according to the report filed by the citv board of health. Forty-seven births were reported during the week, as compared with seventy-one for tile corresponding week of last year. Twenty-three deaths wore reported in the week, as against eighteen for the same week of 191-t. , Sixty-six cases of contagious aud infectious in-fectious diseases were reported during the week, compared with forty-seven for the same week of 10f5. One hundred hun-dred and fortv-six homes wore in quarantine quar-antine at the close of the week. The weekly report of the school nurses follows: . Visits to schools. 96; rooms visited, 65S- number examined, 1135; number inspected, 21,758; permits refused, 30; excluded, 87; referred to medical inspector, in-spector, 2i; cultures taken, 4; minor dressings, 44; homo visits, G3; parents to school, 27. Causes for exclusion Scabies, 1; impetigo, im-petigo, 2; pediculosis, 3; tousilitis, 22; eve infection, IS; unclassified, 31; suspected sus-pected measles, 5; suspected mumps, 4; suspected whooping cough, 2; suspected; diphtheria, .1; suspected chickenpox, 1. Medical and surgical treatments obtainedAdenoids, ob-tainedAdenoids, 5; enlarged tonsils, 5; defective vision, b'. |