Reported In 1901

REPORTED IN 1901

Obed Cooley has been classifying the statistics of the health office, and makes the following report upon infectious diseases.

Whole number reported during 1901 was 94. These cases fall in the following order:

Dead.

Recovered.

Still Sick.

Moved out.

Totals.

Consumption... 13 1 3 19 36

Diphtheria, including membraneous croup... 3 8 8 1 20 

Typhoid fever... 4 9 1 _ 14

Whooping cough... 1 6 _ _ 7

Scarlet fever... _ 6 _ _ 6

Smallpox... 2 2 _ _ 4

Measles... _  2 _ _ 2

Erysipelas... _ 2 _ _ 2

Dysentery... 1 _ _ _  1

Impetigo contagioso...  _ _ 1 _ 1

Cerebro-spinal meningitis... 1 _ _ _ 1

Totals... 23 36 15 20 94

This report misrepresents the actual facts relative to the city proper. Sixteen of the consumptives were patients from outside the city at the hospitals. One of the smallpox cases was also from a distance. Allowances must also be made for neglect in reporting eases upon the part of physicians.

These figures will be incorporated into the next report of the board of health to the city council.