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Show IMPROVED SHOWING IN HEALTH RECORD 'Contagious and Infectious Diseases Tall Off by More Than Half as Compared Com-pared With Last Year. Marked improvement in the health conditions of Salt Lake, as compared with one year ago, is shown by the official of-ficial record of contagious and infectious diseases reported during the week. For the week ending Fnuay night there were but thirty cases, as against seventy-five for the corresponding week of last year. Sixty-four births were reported re-ported last week, while the same week of last year recorded seventy-one. The record shows twenty-six deaths in the weekj the 1915 record for the same week showing twenty-three. The weekly report of the school nurses follows: Visits to schools, 95; rooms visited, 603; number examined, 1032; number inspected, 19,822; permits issued, 838; permits refused, 19; excluded, 121; referred re-ferred to medical inspector, 22; cultures taken, 2; minor dressings, 27; home visits, 52; parents to schools, 30. Causes for exclusions Ringworm, 2; scabies, 2; impetigo, 2; pediculosis, 1 ; tonsilitis. 50; eye infection, 15; unclassified, unclas-sified, 34 j suspected mumps, 1: suspected suspect-ed whooping cough, 2; Buspected chicken pox, 11. Medical and surgical treatments obtained ob-tained Adenoids, 4 ; enlarged tonsils, 11; defective vision, 2. |