Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-02-07 | Page 19 | New Smallpox Cases Rate of Three a Day

I NEW SMALLPOX cASES CASES RATE OF THREE A DAY Fever and Whooping Cough Tie Tic in Great Contagion Contagion Con Con- Race The rIle city's health durin during the tile last week eek shows a slight s1 improvement emont over that of the previous week according to tho the report issued b by the board of or health Contagious diseases have fallen tallen off otT slightly but conditions are still sUll far tal from the Ideal The Tho health I board will wUl have to keep bus busy if it Il hopes to cope COpO with conditions as tho they prevail Contagious diseases arc developing de tie- elopinG so rapidly that the authorities ties cannot afford to relax i vigilance fur for fora fura a n. minute While the health hC board Is 13 doing far from nt work yet yot conditions con con- would be much worse were It not for the tho precautions that are aro being beins de liv During the week there thele were twentysix twenty twenty- six cases of smallpox reported or five less hess than the number of or cases that developed tho the previous week celt Scarlet fever or shows thirteen cases as docs does whooping cou cough h There are arc two cases of ot diphtheria reported two of or cerebrospinal spinal meningitis one of or simple meningitis men men- Ins IUs thirteen of whooping cough three of measles one ono of or pneumonia onla and four of chickenpox The list shows hows ilvo sixty cases of contagious diseases during the week two Thirty two houses were disinfected and quarantined on account of ot sma smallpox smallpox small small- pox twenty six on account of or scarlet fever fo six because of diphtheria and two on account of or spinal men men- Ins There Thero are arl twenty-six twenty cases of smallpox at the isolation hospital