Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 7 | 44 Cases of Typhoid in City Last Week

44 CASES OF TYPHOID ' IN CITY LAST WEEK ; Tvphoid fever took a tremendous I leap' in the eitv last week, there now I being fortv-fo-ir cases under qtiaran- I tine iu the eitv for this disease, ac- l cording to tho report of the city board f of health. Eleven new cases were re- ported as against only two the corre sponding week last year. Eighty per f cent of 'the tvphoid is in the first we.rd. Births exceeded deaths fifty-nine to twenty-six during the week. Fortr-two Fortr-two cases of contagious ami infectious diseases were reported as follows: i Smallpox, one; diphtheria, four; typhoid, ty-phoid, eleven: scarlet fever, six;! ' . measles, six: whooping cough, four; t chickenpox, ten.