Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-05 | Page 2 | Health Report for January

Health Report for or Januar January During the month of of January there were sixty-one sixty deaths death's In the city equiv equiv- equivalent alent to a death rate of as based on the estimated population For tl e same month last year there were seventy Ya t rca deaths from all cau causes es Two hundred an and l. l two cases of ot contagious contagious conta conta- and infectious infectious' diseases diseases- were reported re re- re- re ported portee as follows seven r Thirty seven each of scarlet fever and diphtheria measles seven typhoid g old ld one smallpox p ox an and d fifteen chickenpox Twenty four four culture tubes were examIned examined exam exam- ined b s the City Chemist seventeen of which were found to contain the diphtheria diphtheria theria bacillus Births reported were Males one forty-one females sixty all aU white