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Show FORTY BIRTHS AND ONLY 22 DEATHS The weekly report of the City Board of Health for the week ending April 12 shows that 40 births were reported during dur-ing the week, 26 males and 14 females; 22 deaths were reported during the week, 11 males and 11 females; 3 dead bodies were sent here for burial. During the week 26 cases of contagious con-tagious and infectious diseases were reported, re-ported, consisting of 1 case of smallpox, small-pox, 3 cases of scarlet fever, 16 cases of diphtheria, 2 cases of measles, 1 case of meningitis. 1 case of pneumonia, 1 case of mumps, and 1 case of whooping cough. ! One case of smallpox, 6 cases of scarlet scar-let fever, 14 cases of diphtheria and two houses on account of death from diphtheria remain in quarantine. |