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Show HEALTH OF THE CITY DURING DECEMBER The report of Clerk Brothers of the Board of Health shows that out of sixty-eight deaths in this city for the month of December fifteen were due to old age. Twenty-eight of the total number num-ber were over the age of 65 years and seventeen were under S years of age. Fifty-one were males and thirty-five females. fe-males. . During the month nineteen bodies were brought to this city for burial and seventeen were shipped to other points for Interment. During the month 136 births were reported, of which Blxty-seven were males and eev-enty-nine females. During the month smallpox showed an Increase of ten cases over the report of November, forty-one cases being reported re-ported during the month. Other cases of contagious diseases reported during the month were as follows: . Scarlet fever, fe-ver, twelve; chicken-pox, eleven; diphtheria, diph-theria, ten; typhoid fever, eight; measles, mea-sles, two; whooping cough, one. |