WAUPACA COUNTY NEWS

January 4, 1923

 

HEALTH REPORT

RECORDS OF LOCAL HEALTH OFFICER SHOW CITY TO BE HEALTHY

ONE HOME IS QUARANTINED

The Number of Contagious Diseases in City During the Year of 1923 and What They Were

Births Far Outnumber Deaths for Year.

 

            In a conversation with Dr. C.W. Andrews, city health officer, The News learns that outside of the usual number of winter colds, grippe, etc., that the city is comparatively free from sickness.  At the present time there is but one home in Waupaca under quarantine, it being that of the Hewitt family on East Fulton street.  Mr. Hewitt is down with small pox, he having contracted the disease at Stevens Point.

            During the entire year of 1922 the city had five cases of typhoid, one of them fatal; four cases of scarlet fever; and six diphtheria cases.  During the year there was an exceptionally large number of chicken pox and measles, but none of them were of a virulent form.  During the year one case of lockjaw was reported.

            The records of the health officer also show that during the year 1922, there was reported to his office a total of 165 births, while during the same period there were reported 44 deaths.

            These figures are for the city of Waupaca only, and do not take in the adjoining territory.