tion, it
quickly takes its place with the weather reports among the news
necessities. Marked changes are commented on editorially. Children can
easily be interested, as can adults, in filling out week by week a
table that will show increases and decreases in preventable sickness
due to transmissible diseases.

TABLE X

CASES OF INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES REPORTED

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| WEEK ENDING
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------
| Oct. | Nov. | Nov. | Nov. | Nov. | Nov. | Dec.
| 26 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 30 | 7
-----------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------
Tuberculosis | | | | | | |
pulmonalis | 350 | 350 | 317 | 364 | 345 | 337 | 422
Diphtheria and | | | | | | |
croup | 313 | 264 | 283 | 331 | 282 | 343 | 326
Measles | 142 | 212 | 203 | 261 | 293 | 323 | 472
Scarlet fever | 208 | 228 | 231 | 252 | 278 | 323 | 372
Smallpox | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 2
Varicella | 40 | 83 | 91 | 162 | 136 | 115 | 167
Typhoid fever | 106 | 105 | 107 | 123 | 86 | 77 | 71
Whooping cough | 6 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 27 | 9 | 8
Cerebro-spinal | | | | | | |
meningitis | 6 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 15
-----------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------
Total | 1171 | 1267 | 1250 | 1512 | 1451 | 1535 | 1855
=================+======+======+======+======+======+======+======

=================+=========================================
| WEEK ENDING
+------+------+------+------+------+------
| Dec. | Dec. | Dec. | Jan. | Jan. | Jan.
| 14 | 21 | 28 | 4 | 11 | 18
-----------------+------+------+------+------+------+------
Tuberculosis | | | | | |
pulmonalis | 360 | 354 | 308 | 344 | 432 | 402
Diphtheria and | | | | | |
croup | 369 | 338 | 347 | 308 | 370 | 406
Measles | 471 | 517 | 346 | 581 | 691 | 803
Scarlet fever | 397 | 417 | 426 | 478 | 562 | 585
Smallpox | 4 | 3 | 2 | --