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Show OGDEN HEALTH IN GOOD SHAPE Health conditions In Ogden are today to-day better than they have beep '" many years, according to o statement made bv Dr. Roy II. Wilson, city and county physician, In his annual report re-port of the City health department to the board of city Commissioners In January, 1021, there were 344 , cases of contagiosa diseases under quarantine In Ogden, compared With 1C cases now under quarantine Wsbci county Is correspondingly free from contagion, l)r Wilson reports, 1 No SMALLPOX. There is not a single case of smallpox small-pox in Ogden ,il the present time and there Is but one case in Weber county, the report show Absence of the disease dis-ease ls attributed by Dr Wilson to free in clnatlons which have been given by the hundreds in the city and county. He said these vaccinations vaccina-tions would save many thousands of dollars to ( 'gden and Weber county and prevent much suffering und prob-ahle prob-ahle deaths. The combining of the city and county coun-ty physician's work, the report staf.M, has kept the i purtment In closer toucli with health conditions and n.i prevented duplication of activities. STORK BEAT8 REAPER. Births greatly outnumbered deaths last year, the report shows. There were 680 male births and 210 male deaths, 086 iemnlc births and 194 1 j-male j-male deaths. Pneumonia caused the greatest number of deaths last year, 43 persons per-sons ha Ing succumbed, the report shows There were 20 deaths as tho results of aecklents. Me;, si,- brought about the qiiartn-tlnlng qiiartn-tlnlng of 629 homes while 38j cases of whooping cough came to the attention at-tention of the department. Thero were 311 cases of chlckenpox, 178 rases of smallpox. It cases of typhoid fever, 11 cases of diphtheria and 15 cases of scarlet fever. A total of IS4 cases of tuberculosis was reported in the city and county. RABID dogs. Of 56 cases whore persons were b't ten by dogs and an examination of the animals' heads made, 12 were found to have been Infected with rabies. ra-bies. Forty-one animals were kr-ot under observation for symptoms of rabies. In the weights and measn i n i en' j deportment, 64 inspections of scale and 104 Inspections of gasoline and oil stations were made. The meat Inspection department reported re-ported that 27 beef carcases were condemned con-demned during the year. Llglr head of caltle were found Infected with tuberculosis. tu-berculosis. The Inspector condem De I isu pounds of beef, six mutton. J pounds of pork and 741 beef livers. |