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Show salt lake and state news TYPHOID FESER AEiHG ZIOI SALT LAKE. Aug. 14. Typhoid lever occupies a prominent place In the report of the city board of healtn for the week ending Saturday, Of twenty two ca-ies of contagion and infection in-fection reported for that period, fourteen four-teen were typhoid fever. Two cases reported from the hospitals were I ronght heie from the outside for treatment and do not show in the io-port. io-port. The increase lu this disease should be sufficient notice to the people of the city to heed the warning of th? city health and food authorities to foil drinking water and keep foods covered from flies. , The increase hIso should be sufll-cent sufll-cent notice to physicians to make immediate reports of all typhoid cases lit the city health board as soon as they are discovered, but It isn't, at least, not In some instances. For Instance, Dr. A. L. Castle man reported report-ed to the board of health at l' '.' clock Satuiday afternoon that William Wil-liam Eugene Fowler of 225 D street was HI of typhoid fever. Prior t this, however, Fow ler s death ha 1 been reported to Ihe health hoard offices. of-fices. This rexirt shows that Fowler Fow-ler died twelve hours befoie the attending at-tending physician reported his Illness. Further it showed that Ihe lad ha I been 111 for seven days, since Angus' 12. Seven of the twenty-two cases of contagion and infection reported were scarlet fever. There was-one case of chicken-pox reported. Nineteen houses to main in quarantine on account of scarlet fever aud three on accouut of tiinallpox. Births again outnumbered deaths a! most two to one. There were torty-six torty-six births, of which nineteen were boys and twenty-seven girls, as ..gainst twenty-seven'deatbs, of which hltcen were males and twelve females. fe-males. Five bodies were shipped here for burial |