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Show WEEK'S DEATH RATE SHOWS A DECREASE y The mortality in Salt Lake City for the week ending April 25th shows a slight decrease as compared with last week, there being eighteen deaths reported, re-ported, fifteen of that number being males, and three females; of the total mortality, ten were over 55 years of age. The birth rate for the week Is fairly representative of the normal rate of the city, the new ordinance requiring requir-ing the report of births within five days having bscome operative. The prompt report is gratifying though much more is desired. The number of births reported during the week were thirty-seven, seventeen being males and twenty of the opposite, sex; this is twelve less ' .than the preceding week and two les than for the same week of alst year. At the close of last report there were nineteen cases of scarlet fever In quarantine; quar-antine; during the week three new cases developed and six having been discharged, left sixteen cases in detention deten-tion In nine premises as compared with twenty-nine for the corresponding period pe-riod of last year. Eight new cases of diphtheria were reported during' the week and three were released, leaving fifteen cases in quarantine as against tn for the preceding week and eleven for the same week of last year. At the close of the last report twenty-six cases of smallpox remained in quarantine; sixteen cases developed during the week and the same number having recovered, left twenty-six cases at the close of this report. Three cases of measles, . five cases of German measles and three cases of chicken-pox were also reported. |