Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-03
HEALTH REPORT.
Improvement in Typhoid Situation
Shown in Weekly Statement

The report of the health Office for the
week ended last Saturday. December 30,
looa was Issued today, az follows:
The department desires to invite the at
tention of the public to the improvement In
the typhoid fever situation. as shown In this
report There appears on the records OF the
office reduction of fifteen cases of this
disease since last weeks report. Only two
new reports were received Zone of which
was the report of a cass that occurred dur
ing November and which the physician In
attendance on same failed to report until
thls week, when he made also recovery
report or same case, while seventeen dis
charges lone by DEATH were recorded. The
Total number of cases under trea tment at
this date is but 80. At the close of last
week there were 81 cases under treatment.
and at corresponding period of 1904. tT3
ca ses
THE number of cases OF smallpox con-
tnues 10 increase. there having been six
new cases discovered during the week and
no discharges reported. All of these six
cases however, developed In persons who
were already quarantined because of their
exposure to infection from cases previously
reported There are now confined at the
sraiipox hospital twenty patients suffering
with this disease This Is the largest num-
Der of cases confined in the hospital at one
and the same time for several years.
Scarlet fever shows an increase of three
cases since last week. There were four new
cases reported and one case terminated ia
tine "a.
An improvement In the diphtheria situa-
ton Is shown at the close Of this week.
There were IL new reports received and III
discharges Zone by death), which leaves 81
cases In quarantine, as compared with 40
at the close of last week, and 40 at tho
corresponding period of last year.
The number of deaths reported during
current week was 100 as compared with lat
during the previous week and 100 during
the corresponding week of 1904. or these
deaths. 80 were among the white iuhabi-
tants and 81 among the colored. They rep
resent a death rate per LOCO of the white
population OF 1876 and Of the colored, 2s2.
The death rate for the entire population OF
the District was 1913. The respective rates
1885, and for the corresponding period OF
last year. 1876. 26.7 and 21.1.
The prevailing fatal diseases of this
week were as follows: Pneumonia, Les
deaths: consumption IL; heart trouble. II;
bronchitis, 8; apoplexy, Z, and kidney dis
each.
"A classification of this weeks mortality
by age of deceased shows "a deaths under
one year of age from one to four years
this. and sixty years old and over, -
deaths.
.sThe number OF births reported during
the week was 12o. OF these "a were white
Infants and 46 colored.
THE weather conditions, as reported by
the weather bureau, were: Mean tempera-
ture, 3S degrees mean relative humidity,
81 per cent: mean actual barometer, % 30.
The winds were southerly In direction, with
an average velocity of seven miles per hour.
The maximum velocity registered was
thirty miles, on the 3Oth instant. The max
imum temperature was 81 degrees, on tho
Goth instant, and the minimum, % degrees.
on the 18th instant.