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Show SALT LAKE HEALTH CONTINUES BETTER Eecord of Week Shows Excess of Birtiis Over Deaths; School Nurses Give Results of Work. Salt Lnko continues to mnintnin nnl even to improve upon its excellent record rec-ord for the nxeoHH of biMhs over deaths. For the went ending Fridny niht cdx-ty-three births were reported to the city board of health; as compared with sixty for the ' corresponding week of If) 1.1. There were hut twcnly-four deaths reported during the week, (is as against twenty-six fpr the same week of ho 3rear ' previous. Twenity-thrcH cases of contagious and infectious dis eases wore reported, one more than for the samo week' of last year. , The weekly report of the school nurses follow: J Visits to schools. 9."; rooms visited, 577; number examined. Kilti; number inspected, lf,fi'J2; iermits issued. Ml'; permits refused, 74; excluded, 51; referred re-ferred to niedif-nl inspector, 8; cultures taken, (J ; ni in or d ressings, 4'i ; homo visits, 5S; parents to s-choo), fiO. Causes for ex-clusinn Impetigo, 1; pediculosis, 1; tonilitis, 20; ore infection, infec-tion, fi; unchmsif ied, 2'A; FiiHpected scarlatina, 2t; suspected whooping coiifh, . Medical arTd sureieal treatments (detained (de-tained Adnoids, II; enlarged tonsib, 12; defective hearing. 1; riofective v- ion, 4; uindassi I ied, fc; treatments r , -ommended, M. |