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Show MINOR DISUSES ! SPREADJN CITY Health Board Asks Prompt Reports as Aid in Check ing Increase Cases of contagious diseases in H den are on the Increase and difficult Is being experienced by the board health In coping with the prc?ei conditions, There are at present more than three hundred and fifty cases of contagions con-tagions diseases reported. An even greater number than this exists. oT which no report has been made, it Is believed. I'nlevH people of l he city co-operate with the health board by reporting diseases when they are found to exist, the number will grow greater rather I than less, it Is claimed Eleven homes were quarantined f"1" 1 measles yesterda) seven whooping 'cough quarantine tags were placed, land one case of chlckenpOX was quar- ' antined Cases of disease reported in the city aro as follows: Measles. 200 cases: whooping cough, 100 cases: smallpox, 38 cases; chlckonpox. 21 cases. It. is claimed that there are many I cases of whooping cough which have not been n ported .Mothers are warned warn-ed against taking ' hildren suffering Horn this ailment to public places. |