Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-08-26 | Page 24 | Thirty-Five Typhoid Cases Reported

THIRTY-FIVE TYPHOID CASES REPORTED The weekly report of the city .board of health shows that thirty-five Salt Lake homes were under quarantine yesterday yes-terday on account of typhoid fever. "Officials "Of-ficials of the board, however, denied emphatically that there is any danger of an epidemic, of the contagion, and explained that the number of patients is not excessivo for this season, though it exceeds that of the same date last year by fifteen. Other contagious and infectious diseases dis-eases mentioned in the report include t he following: Diphtheria, four; scarlet scar-let fever, three; measles, one; whooping whoop-ing cough, twentv-four; chicken pox, eight. Sixty-two births occurred during the week, there being twenty-six boys ami thirty-six girls born. Twenty-three deaths were reported, of which number thirteen were males and ten females.