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Show uu 1 HEALTH BOARD ISSUES ITS MONTHLY REPORT Salt Lake. Feb. 8. A total of 240 births, as against 119 deaths, was re-j re-j corded with the health department ; during the month The births were 1 118 boys ami 122 girls: of the deaths 1 69 were males aud 50 females Measles killed three children In I Salt Lake during January while scarlet fever, smallpox, diphtheria and typholM feer claimed not a sln-jgle sln-jgle victim. Whooping cough also killed one child and pneumonia claim-led claim-led ten victims This l8 the showing of the monthlv report of the health department R". jsned esterda The supposedly I j harmless diseases appear to have' been the chief vehicle of death a point to which the health authorities have called attention irequentlv in recent months There was a total of 385 case6 of 'measles to three deaths, and the jwhoopimr cough took one out of four cases Of smallpox there were in cases icarlel fever, ewven esses ' diphtheria, lour cases, and tvphold fever four cases |