The age-herald., 1897-10-27
HEA[TH OF THE CITY GOOD
Mild Epidemic of Diptheria Is
 Prevalent.
CASES OF SCARLET FEVER
Scattered About, but Not Enough to Cause Aarm-Death Roll Small-Cases of
 Diptheria Have Been Recorded.

The general health of Birmingham Is good. With the exception of some cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever, which is prevalent mostly among children there is comparatively little sickness and the health of the city was never better
 The books of reiscrd kept in County Health Officer Barclays office give the following:
 For the month of September the total number of deaths in the nine wards of the city were forty, seventeen whites and twenty three colored, which, based upon the population, gives an annual death rate of 1925 per thousand.
 For the same period of time fifty-six children were born, thirty white and twenty1six colorei, making the annual birth rate 1927 ger thousand.
 The prevalence of diphtheria and scar let fever is not thought alarming by the physicians of the city who assign no special cause for its existence.
 The following eases have been report ed since September r, most of them have recovered, some are still sick and a few have died.
 September 17, Robinson, child, TIA North Twentieth street, diphtheria.
 September q, Elvira Howell Twelfth strset and Avenue F, scarlet fever.
 September 21, child of J. F. Harring- ton, Twelfth street and Avenue F, diph- theria.
 September 22, child of Jack Mcdonald, North Birmingham. diphthera.
 September 22, Jollard Jonss 22S1 Arl- ington avenue, diphtheria.
 September 22, child of E. J. MeCrossin, 2729 Avenue G, diphtheria.
 October 1, Minnie Lou Davis, 2121 Ave- nue H, diphtheria.
 October g. Nichol Means, (col) 1117 Fourth avenue, diphtheria.
 October ?, B. M. Allen, Third avenue, between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets, diphtheria.
 October 2, Clara Burk, 4041h Twenti- eth street, diphtheria.
 October ?, Clara Trigg, 1424 North Twentieth street. scarlet fever
 October 5, Anna Jones .(col), Fifth ave- nue and Thirtylsecond street, diphtheria. october 3, Fate Stone (col), Eth ave- nue and Thirty street, diphther a. fh ..,F and, ,.hm hm Inn hm hm hm 4.,m
 October 5, child of W. D. Self, 251S Ave- nue c, scarlet fever.
 October 8, Harold Bare, 1891 Avenue F, dsphtheria.
 October g, Lutsn Gooden, 2O11a Nor;h. Twentieth street, diphtheria.
 October 10 Will Burk, 4011s North Twentieth street, diphtheria.
 October 10, Ella Guckenburger, Tenth avenue, between Seventeenth and Eigh- teenth stre cts, South, scarlet fever.
 October II, Will Westerman, Humbolt avenue and Twentieth street, diphthera. October 12 child of A. B. Hamlett, 1530 Seventh avenue, scarlet fever.
 October 12, J.. l.. Coleman, Thirteenth street and Fourteenth avenue, diphthe- ria.
 October IT, child of A. B. Hamlett, 153o Sew nth avenue, scarlet feven
 October IS, child of J. l.. Cooley, Ninth street and Second avenue, diphtheria.
 October 20, Harry M. Satterfield, Ave nue G and Twentieth street, diphtheria.
 October 21, John M Bradley, /Jr, 729 Twenty-fiIst street, scarlet fever.
 October p, E. M. McCambridge, 1905 Avenue B, diphtheria.
 october 22, child of Mrs. P. E. Porter, 1912 Avenue c, scarlet fever.
 October 2S, child of Me Tacconi, 1O5A North Nineteenth street, diphtheria.