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Show WHOOPING COUGH LEADS DISEASES .Seventy tana, of eontagiou. and in-factious in-factious disrate were report ad during tha week ending A a (runt 4. of which fltv-aight cases ware whooping eougk, according to tha weeklv report of tha ritr board of health. Tha numeroaa reports of cases of whooping cough ara due to tha fact that tha, inspectors of tha health department have baan ronnding up avert easa of diaeaaa in tha city with 1 view of putting aa and to its spread. In this wa many easas hsva been found which otherwise may not bava -been xapaiUd. diuing tha araek-. and soma mar have beea cases hanging ovar from the previous waag. Kverv poasibla effort is being made by tha health department to put a stop to tha spread of tha diaeasa and within the aelt week or so it is hoped to hsva it practically atamped out. Out.ida of whooping' cough, tha city is modrratelv free from disease. One rasa of smallpox small-pox waa reported during th weak, on rasa of diphtheria, four ease of typhoid fever, on cas of mtimpa, two rasa of scarlet favrr, on cas of measles and two rasa of ehh-kenpox. Two bouse are now undor quarantine for smallpox, avn houses on aeconnt of scarlet fever, and seven for diphtheria. diph-theria. During th week, there war flfty-flv flfty-flv births reported, of which twenty-five twenty-five war males and thirty-on females. Twenty-nine deaths wer reported, of which fifteen war male ana fourteen females. v |