Mayor’s message and reports of the city officers . treams; (6) the better and more effectual control of typhoidfever throughout the State through the activities of the State 30 REPORT OP THE and local Boards of Health; (7) the education of the publicin regard to the methods of avoiding typhoid fever whileabroad as well as at home. Paratyphoid Fever— During 1916 there were reported 29 cases of paratyphoidfever, with no deaths. Previous to this year I find no sepa-rate report of paratyphoid fever. 1916 there were 206 cases and 70 deaths from polio-myelitis reported, as against 2
Mayor’s message and reports of the city officers . treams; (6) the better and more effectual control of typhoidfever throughout the State through the activities of the State 30 REPORT OP THE and local Boards of Health; (7) the education of the publicin regard to the methods of avoiding typhoid fever whileabroad as well as at home. Paratyphoid Fever— During 1916 there were reported 29 cases of paratyphoidfever, with no deaths. Previous to this year I find no sepa-rate report of paratyphoid fever. 1916 there were 206 cases and 70 deaths from polio-myelitis reported, as against 26 cases and 4 deaths in No. 8 gives a comparison of the mortality and mor-bidity rates for poliomyelitis by months for the two cases were tabulated according to date of report and not(late of onset: TABLE NO. 3. ^ 1915. 1916. Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. January February March 2 2 April May .Tune 1 1 .... .... July 11 2 3 1 August 13 37 16 September 1 1 71 24 October 74 21 November .... 17 4 December 2 2 Total 26 4 206 70. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 31 It Avill be noted that in 1916 the snmmer incidence of thedisease Avas a month later than in 1915. In both years thedisease ran a rather characteristic conrse for the epidemicform, but in 1916 the incidence of the disease Avas considera-bly over four months, as against two in 1915. The outbreakof new cases in 1916 stopped abruptly after a decided coldsnap about the middle of October. The relation of the disease to the epidemic in New Yorkand Pennsylyania could not be clearly traced. In Marchtwo cases of the disease occurred in the crowded part of theuorthwestern section of the city. On July 12th a case devel-oped in a young child four days after its arrival with itsmother from Brooklyn, N. Y. The child stayed in the homeof an aunt on Hamburg street, in the Twenty-first other case developed in this neighborhood, and the motherand child left for New York immediately after second case traceabl
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