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Five to ten ecars --------------------
Ten to thirty year.s-----------------
Thirt:'" to sixty years ----------------
Over sixty' years --------------------
Births Reported
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Cases Reported Week Ending.
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\learler - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Scarlet F ever - - - - - - - - - - - - -
l)rt,it herra - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
1 t.,i}l1 lever........................--
'h irris I'utrn~vahi= - - - - - - - - - -
1'hec-pino Cno h - -- - - -- - - -- - -
Ccrchro-Spinal Slcrriorzirir ____ _
1-ralipox - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
'Mum-ps...............................--
Ery"sipelas - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Trachomna -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Gonorrhea - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
inflammation oi the eyes of the new horn_
Acute Anterior Polio-myelitis ______
WVhite male
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - 1 1
White feriale -----------------------
Colored nmale------------------------ t
Colored female---------------------
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CINCINNATI SANITARY BULLETIN
REPORT OF TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY FOR MARCH, 1918
Total cases handled-------------------------------------------- 9461
New home cases visited and registered-----------------------------8
Other cases handled in the homes-------------------------------- 520
Old disp. patients returning-sat re-visit for year ------------------ 1116
Old disp. patients returning-sat re-visit for month------------120
New dispensary patients registered_------------- - - --_______131
Adults Children
Male Female Male Female Totals
Tuberculous------------ 9 2 0 2, 13
" StagelI------ 2 0 2 6
Stagell----------_5 0 0 0 5
Stage IIIl - 21 0 0 0 " 2
Non-Pulm. ----0 0 Ut 0 0
Non-tuberculous - 13 11 18 31 73
Doubtful--------------- 14 14 9 9 46. Totals------------ 36 27 27 4' 132
New positive cases sent to the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanatorium-- b
New positive cases sent to St. Francis Hospital----------------------.1
New positive cases transported_........................ ____.
New positive. cases sent to Private Physicians -----------------
New positive cases remaining under care of Anti-Tuberculosts Lg __ 3
Other case-s sent to the Muntcipal; Tuberculosis Sanatorium----__16
Other cases sent to the Ohio State Sanatorium-----__- - _ 1
Other cases sent to the Cincinnati Hospital -_____
Other cases transported _----- ------------
Ohrcases sent to Private Physicians --- ________
Other cases referred to Newport Public Health Nurse-____-_ " Total numnber of nurses'.home visits 8a2___-----------
Total, number of nurses' home visits__ -------------- ----195
Total number of other investigator's visits_--------------------- 15'
Total number of visits of patients to dispensary_-----------------503
Sources of Reference of New Dispensary Patients
Anti--Tuberculosis League---------------------- ------------- 48.:'Associated Charities ------------------------------ 2
-Bureau of Catholic Charities-------------------------------1
Board %of Health -------- ----------------------------------------- 1
Cincinnati. Polyclinic ------------------------------ 1
Children's Home-------------------------5,. Churches---------------------------------------- ----------- 1
District Physicians _-------------------------------3
Foreigners' Christian Home --------------------------- ------- 2
juvenilACor ---------------- ---------------------------------
Other patients.----_____r____--_-------------- -------------------19
Other:sources------------_---------------- - ----_21
*Private E'hystcians --------------------------------------------
ScholNuse--------------------------------------- ---1
VisitingNurse. Association ______1------
Red- Cross Society---------------------------------------- ---- 3
Number of-school lectures given------------------------------- 99
Number, of pupils r ched through these lectures__--------------_9600:
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VOL -1 -APRIL 25,..1918 No: 50
THE 1918 DEATH RATE to= all 'arts of -houses, offices
andother. platces of -business. The -death rate IflGInefa High funads' are almost: invari -nailsm c6.'thefirst of:aur bly f ollo edhby an: increased
is. not sipleasitig9-ting to "conf prevalence of respiratory dis-. template:Compared with =the:eases.ThieepIden ice of. grippe '
same.period:of 1917,:;we haye nowv-prevailing i -certainlyc w hnrdmredah r,
had to hunred ore daths l' el uei to, dissenaton
than:.4e lhad last:tear -Y' - of infected street dust hy: high
They death s during D~ecemn indls.Reduction in car'sereh er, A"117rantd - Jaime' ~.aid;'ice has.'aided by, irircasing
Ferury;,"1918, we c deli-.Vcontiict: -
-ylower than for. they 6ir' -.Typhoid; fever' canhe eliah sponding period the preceding mnatedthiroug h- purifcation of
1ear. All will recall that, this- milk and, water supplies and
was a period of unprecedttnt- by the. immunization. con ed cold and snow fall. 'in the ferredj- through. vaccination..
latter condition.may. reside Sall pox can he controlled
the explanation,.for a thick- by wide-spread vaccination
layer:of.-:snow=. practically: and: revaccination.
eliminated: street 'dust: for a A large. measure of control
period of three -months and it can bie secured against (iphs:was during.' this period that _:theria and scarlet fever: hut
deaths from, respiratory.(118- La Grippe or Influenza seems'
eases were unusually low.. ' to laugh, at all efforts to. pre,! Since the snow disappeared,..crihe its spread.
andh winds have. prevailed Thirty.-five deaths ' were
adstreet. dust has penetrated, caused by' pneumonia last
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