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Show INFECTION FFTOrVi PNEUMONIA Evidence That tho Disease Can Bo Communicated by Proximity. The Stato Board of Health's warning, published In The Tribune yesterday morn-. Ing, to tho effect that pneumonia's death rato In Utah Is rapidly Increasing and that tho dlaeoso Is Infectious, ( hns caused no small Interest, not only among medical men. but among the laity. Tho stand taken by tho board Is Justlllcd by a number num-ber of recent examples as to Infection. One of those comes from Park City. Fred Grose died there of pneumonia Saturday. Wednesday last his daughter, Lcona, succumbed suc-cumbed to thi same disease. This Is ono out of several similar Incidents. As a consequence of tho wnrnlng of tho Board of Health. It la hoped that people in families whore pneumonia exists will exercise care ns to contact with tho patient, pa-tient, especially during this season when colds are prevalent. |