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Show BIRTHS ARE 87 AND DEATHS 24 IN WEEK Eighty-seven births and twenty-four deaths during last week are shown by tJie weekly report of the city board of health, issued yesterday. This is twenty-nine twenty-nine more births and two lesa deaths than in the. corresponding; period of hist ypar. Contagious disease cases reported during dur-ing the week numbered 284. as follows: Mumps. 46; ehhitenpox and whooping cough. -11 cases each ; Germa n measles, 42; mea&leti, 11 ; smallpox. X ; scarlet fever, 14. audi dlp-Ixt 6. |