Excerpt from Eighth Biennial Report of Colorado State Board of Health: January 1, 1905, to December 31, 1906During the calendar year of 1906 there were reported 503 cases of diphtheria, cases of scarlet fever, 265 cases of smallpox, cases of typhoid fever 'and deaths.Diphtheria and smallpox have decreased, scarlet fever and typhoid fever both show marked increase. The increase of typhoid fever has been principally in the Arkansas valley, where the disease has been epi demic each season for several years and is becoming more of a menace from year to year.The principal epidemics that have occurred have been as follows.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.