Show G GREAT REA T DECREASE IN DISEASE T IN CITY Last Jast Health Department Guts Cuts 1914 Figures in Two I j A decrease of ot more than per percent percent percent cent In contagion In the city during the past week as compared with the corresponding week In 1914 Is Is' Is shown in the weekly report of the city board of health Issued today There were wera but thirteen cases ses of contagious and Infectious diseases reported to the h health alth officials during the past week against twenty seven for the same week last year ear The report shows a decrease In births which i III nearl neary offset by a 11 corre corresponding decrease In deaths During the past past- week three forty births and fourteen deaths were re reported reported re- re ported as against forty-eight forty births and seventeen deaths last year Typhoid fever fe cases are fewer than I 1 for the same per period od last year A total of el eighteen cases were reported I Ito to the health officials last week against twenty eight for the same week eek last year At the close of the past week wel thirty-seven thirty houses housE's remained in quarantine while at the close of the corresponding week last year ear there were eighty houses under the same I restriction The monthly school report for September September Sep Sep- I te rn follows MO MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT September 1915 Visits Visit to schools visited n. n 20 2041 2011 1 Number examined Number umber inspected Permits Permit Issued v 1328 1126 Permits I refused e 19 J Excluded Je i n Referred to medical Inspector 60 Cultures Culture taken 9 Home nome visits 1 63 Parents to schools n. n Minor dr dressings Ill Causes for exclusions Ringworm r T 7 Scabies 1 13 Impetigo o n. n 9 Head lice Ue lit 11 39 3 Eye Infection 11 Unclassified 82 12 of 5 mumps gl of 3 Suspicion of chicken po poz 1 Medical and surgical treatments obtained Adenoids 25 Enlarged tonsils 38 Defective hearing 1 Detective Defective vision vision- vision 9 I |