Show I BIRTHS FEWER DEATH MORE FREQUENT THAN THANIN IN SAME PERIOD OF 1917 The weekly report of ot the city I board of health shows that there were nine fewer births and more deaths In the last week than thanin I in the corresponding period of last year ear There were wre one fifty-one births I reported and arid twenty-three twenty deaths Cases Ct of ot contagious diseases to totaled totaled totaled to- to I as follows follows- Chickenpox 38 measles 23 23 scarlet fever 22 typhoid smallpox 6 5 mumps 4 I diphtheria 2 and ant German measles mea men ales 3 |