Show BIRTHS ARE FEWER THAN A YEAR AGO There is a marked decrease in the birth rate of the past week compared with the corresponding period of last year according to the weekly report of the board of health There were eighteen eight eight- eight I een fewer births last week than the same week last year and two more more j deaths There were seven forty-seven births births' reported during the past week and two twenty-two deaths There was a slight increase in the number of measles cases reported due to the commencement of school with nineteen cases reported Scarlet fever came next on the list with nine cases ChIckenpox five diphtheria one and typhoid two ca cases s completed the list of thirty Only two births have been reported for the past two days |