Show SCARLET FEVER I INOW NOW V AN EPIDEMIC Alarming Spread of Disease During December Baffles Health Office I CASES MULTIPLY FIVEFOLD I Measles Fall A Away way to Make Room for Rapid Growth of Worse Contagion IUSI n iN I BIU Week colt l landing Dec Dee Dec Dec D Doe Dec e. e 6 G 13 20 27 7 Starlet St fever 8 U tI 16 10 38 diphtheria V 3 8 8 12 2 8 S Typhoid fever tover 5 6 3 2 1 2 0 G V 3 1 Smallpox V 0 0 0 V I 4 M 10 70 Tola 0 1 0 I eight Thirty eases case of sC scat scarlet f fever time the greatest number over ever reported In Iii one omie wee wool week If were uvero recorded ded at the time city health office last hint week The figures show an alarming spread of ur if time the disease and the health department has ha b been Cn practically powerless powerless' against the oncoming on nn- in- in coming coining epidemic The Time growth of oC scarlet fever through throng December shows that hint while eight eases cases of or scarlet fever were reported III In the time first week of or the time month 38 18 were re reported reported re- re ported In the la last t week deek or nearly five hl times as ns many as at t tho 10 first of or the month While scarlet fever er is Js growing minOT minor min main or OT diseases such as measles are arc falling tiff off In lii the tho first week of or lh the lie month were wre reported and in the time fourth week weel only 70 were reported while In Inthe Inthe the time third wed wet week the time hl high h lila lido was reached when n were rel reported orte c Ik For each case of scarlet fever a ahouse house must b bf be In quarantine at least 21 days The health reports show that Ii 59 houses Were In quarantine I Friday rl a the time cn end of oC the thc week reported by hy the board of health J Fourteen houses were In quarantine at that time from tram theria therm Four lr cases eases of smallpox were sent to the Isolation hospital Durine the week there were r. r I births 29 20 females and amid 2 24 21 males There were 30 d deaths IS males maies and 12 fc- fc Isles nnie Seven bodies were shipped to Salt Lake for burial |