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Show KH) HEALTH OF CITY IS VERY GOOD The health of the city, according to the report for the month of October Octo-ber just completed by Sanitary Inspector In-spector George Shorten, is very gratifying grati-fying to the health department. Smallpox Small-pox has been completely wiped out and there are but few cases of the more serious contagious diseases, Thirty-eight cases of contagious diseases dis-eases were reported at the health office of-fice last month, as follows Scarlet fever. 3; diphtheria. 2; measles. mea-sles. 2; chicken pox. lfi; typhoid fever, 8; whooping cough, 7 Whooping cough, which almost reached an epi derate stage a couple of months ago, as noted in the report, is almost stamped out There was an increase, however, In the number of cases of typhoid fever and chlckenpox, but several sev-eral of these were released from quarantine quar-antine before the month closed. There were 32 deaths, and 67 births during the month, 34 of the latter being be-ing males and 33 females. |