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Show SIXTY-SIX NEW CASES. . Weekly Report on Contagious Diseases, Dis-eases, Births and Deaths. Salt Lake, Jan. 11. Sixty-six new cases of contagious and infectious diseases dis-eases were reported to the local board of health during the week ending Fri-' Fri-' day night. Of these, 11 were of smallpox small-pox and 15 scarlet fever. Other diseases dis-eases are: Diphtheria, 8; measles, 1; typhoid fever. 3; chicken-pox, 8; whooping cought, 14. There are 22 houses under quarantine quaran-tine on account of smallpox, 34 on account ac-count of scarlet fever and 9 on account of diphtheria. There are still 12 cases of smallpox at the Isolation hospital. Births numbered 40 during the week, being 24 males and 16 females. There were 21 deaths, 1C males and S females. fe-males. Four bodies were shipped here for burial. |