Show 55 BIRTHS REPORTED MERE HERE IN ONE WEEK EEK Only a I. I small increase in the number of or births this week over the tho same week of or last year r ar has been noted by bythe bytho bytho tho the city board of or health according to toils toil's its it's week weekly statement issued today During Curing the week there were recorded in the city four tour more births this Week than during the same mo week last year I and three more moro deaths There were five fifty births during the week and twenty six deaths The department reports sixty-one sixty cases of or contagious dl diseases IS 13 of ot which were scarlet fever 17 measles 13 chickenpox S 8 smallpox 2 diphtheria 1 meningitis 1 tuberculosis and 1 mumps The Tho report says the continuance of ot the smallpox for tor the last lost few tew weeks has been a source of or considerable mystery I Inasmuch as the time cases are all isolated |