Show MALIGNANT DISEASES ARE NOT DECREASING and Fever Feer Keep Up ip high Record l of ur Increase While Diphtheria Gains Stronger Hold Thirty-five Thirty ne new cases s of ot contagious and Infectious diseases s were reported to the city board of health for the week ending last Friday night according according- to tho the weekly report Issued Saturday by tho board While this was a n decrease of nine nino from front the total of 44 H cases reported re reported re- re ported the preceding week eek little de do- do crease was shown In tho the number of ot cases of smallpox and scarlet fever tho the I two diseases which are especially prevalent alent In the city at the present time Fourteen fourteen now cases of each of those these I diseases wore reported last week as against 16 15 now cases reported for each I disease the preceding week Four new cases of ot diphtheria wore reported In tho ell city during durIng- the tho last week an Increase of one over oyer tho total number of cases of this disease reported report report- ed the preceding week Ono case of whooping cough and two ca cases of chickenpox formed tho the rest of the total of or 35 cases for tho the week the two VO diseases dis dis- eases last mentioned showing sho a do- do de crease t Seventeen houses were under quarantine quarantine quarantine antine at tho the close of ot tho the week eok In the city on account of smallpox 37 houses on account of ot scarlet c fever and seven on account of diphtheria while seven cases caRes of smallpox remained ned nt at the Isola Isolation hospital tal Fifty eight births were reported In the city during the week 32 of tho the new arrivals being boys bos and 26 girls Twenty five deaths were reported 12 of these being males an and 13 females Three bodies were shipped to this city for tor burial during tho the week |