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Show I OGDEN HEALTH I REPORTED GOGD I Whooping Cough Is Most Pre- valent Disease Now In City Health conditions in ogden never bettor and sickness It being hold H to the minimum, according to H port Issued this morning by Dr. J. H M Elliott, city aanltary Inspector, U H J. Ray Ward, commlasloner of tho dc- H i-lmrnt of public "'fi-ty. H '. . Whooping cough tops the list In ras reported steps arc being H made to curb the spread. In tin re-H re-H 0Ort, iggcstionx are given to parents H wno are lending their children to H school. The report follow: H "The hcallh of the city was prnh- H ably never better. The health t f !- H Records show that there is not a case H f i smallpox in the city. There were H three cases of chicken pox. two rases H mi isles, thirty- H iriK uUKht and one of typhoid H fever reportid during the month H August. There arc eight cases H rli-j fever reported In vpteniber. H llles, living in tho same house, and H .ihe source of th infection was out of H the city. There two cases ( H typhoid fevr-r reported in September, H marina a total of three cases of H typhoid fever reported since January I i. 1S20; in each th f tlon contracted outside the B 1 ' ' H 1 rested during the month of August. "The most serious condition at ptes H ant is whooping cough, l'h the ppenlng Of hool this needs the at-H at-H t ntlon ( pari nt. H H ery fatal infection, ranking one of I B B as a cause of death in chlldr n under' K : nd f arb't fvcr :r.-- thi lallty," V iccordlng to leading physicians H 'everybody cognizes a case of tvpl-whooping tvpl-whooping cough. I: is the case H m which there if no whoop thot Is H most dangerous in spreading the H flsente; and munv rases iugh ithers do not whoop' unUI nearly B H "hUd persisting ivo weeKs 01 lorir-r H -mgh and so treated unless advised H rnherwiee by the famllj physician H ir this were done and overy coughing H ihild kept home, this cpidcinle H .vnuM BOOH lis course.' BSSSSSSB no |