Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-07-19
BIRTH RATE
STILL LEADS
City Health Officer Reports
Twice as Many Births as
Deaths During the First
Half of the Month Of
July

During the first fifteen days of
July, according TO the report of the
city health office rendered to City
Manager w. A. Parish, there We're
in the city limits more than twice
AS many births as deaths To be
exact there were twenty -one births,
rs against ten deaths. In the entire
registration district which includes
several city and county institutions,
the birth rate exceeded that of the
death rate, there being noted thirty
births as against nineteen deaths. or
the births recorded, two were still
births.
The city is quite free of dangerous
contagious disease as shown by the
figures of the report. Exclusive of
the figures relating to the births and
deaths the report of the city health
office. follows:
Contagious Disease Report
Cases remaining July /:
Typhoid Fever OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Smallpox -..... ....................l
Scarlet Fever Observation-Disclosures.
Diphtheria ............ ...........
Reported since July L
Typhoid Fever Observation-Disclosures. -
Scarlet Fever ............ ........0
Diphtheria .......-.. .............l
Released from quarantine July115:
smallpox ........ ..............-.2
Scarlet Fever Observation-Disclosures.
Diphtheria ... ..........2
Total remaining July 10 =.
Typhoid Fever ........,.. ......2
smallpox ........... ..............l
Isolation hospitaD
lhphtheria ........ ..............1
The vaccination histories of the
two smallpox cases reported were as
follows: One never vaccinated: one
Vaccinated sixteen years ago, re-vac-
cinated six or seven years ago.
The complete histories of all the
typhoid cases have not yet been re-
ceived, but from the data thus far
obtained. they had no common focus
of infection.
The following is the sanitary re-
rort:
Nuisances
Privies and cesspools:
Attachments pending July L.. G5
Notices to abate, July lis
rriNleS '.'....... .........-,. l
Nesspools ...,... ............
Priyies abated July lis ...26
Cesspools abate,l July lis .. /
Other Nuisances:
Attachments pending July 1. l
Complaints received July 1-15...11
inspected .'.....- .-....-.......1 IL
No nuisance found .... 3
Restaurant Inspections .......32
Diaries inspected and scored ...... 5
Samples of milk tested for gross
sediment ........ ...10
No new notices to abate privies
have been sent out during this period
except where complaint has been
made for the reason that l have
thought it better to secure the abate-
ment OF as many as possible of those
pending and take up the abatement
Of the remainder in systematic
manner. The exceedingly large num-
her of these nuisances still existing
makes such a method imperative if
the city is to be rid of them within
any reasonable length of time
have about completed the data for
the special report promised in my
report for the period June 16 to so,
and 1t will be submitted with rec
concentrations. Personally, ! am
convinced that a publicity campaign
viii be essential to success and that
an ordinance empowering the city to
make sewer connections when the
property owner, either resident or
absentee, refuses or is unable to do
so. is even more essential
The score cards for the inspection
of dairy farms. dairies. creameries,