Show HEALTH OF THE TilE STATE W WHILE THE REPORT of the state fl board of health for February shows on Oil the whole who e fairly satisfactory tory tor conditions condition there IS i nevertheless much more contagious disease e in Utah than lUan there should be bt For example eases tse of smallpox were reported Time was when if half that number of cases eases smallpox had been known to ti exist the entire state or at nt least the rational portion of it would have hae been seriously alarmed Now No it seems to be taken talen as a matter of course coune COur COurt It t is iti l impossible impassible to believe that this tills state of affairs could exist cist if ir those a with smallpox wt were ere re rigidly obedient to quarantine regulations Progress has been eln made in iii this line lino but more mOle progress must be made The small percentage of or deaths from small SInai smallpox pox IB lu gratifying there having b been bean only onI one fatality in the 2 M fM 4 caSes but this very fact is liable Hable to ause cause trouble in future for it will wiH breed a sort of contempt nt for smallpox And there is no telling te lIn when a fatal fattI epidemic e may break bt uk out The Th greatest number of 1 cases of tf any lR ue was in jn o of Cl which victims stIll and three were report reported r port ed t d Measles Measie Meas is i considered by b most l Jle le as 8 a u perfectly perfect harmless malady pK l pl Will wll be surprised to that tha t ever even ee ii il TOO to ca ft es there were a amany ss 86 many aa as dea ll The Tle disease te i one that should be carefully i and anI the i patient ati nt most attentively i nursed Nor should children who have bae not Rot h hal d l measles me les be come in inon I contact on a t with the patient on the theory eo that they ar bound to have hwe It somo some sometime time and they might ml ht as ss well have it now no A decidedly etlou feature Ure of the tep t is i lh the long Jong list of f pneumonia cases casas with Jt 35 6 deaths a mortality mort i of f something like 25 j per p r cent It is quite probable that some sonic of these cases casesI were caused by lack hick or of knowledge of or orthe J I the that pneumonia is J i a a communicable communicable j I cable disease It some localities beauties steps have been taken to quarantine against t tIt it Diphtheria ll Ordin to the report Is not nearly as a u disease as asit asIt asIt it was a 1 few tew years cars y ars ago 0 With cases there were wet three deaths Per Perhaps haps huis these th se patients p might have been be 1 saved sayed It If antitoxin ln had been us usEd d on Oil them in lit time |