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Show REPORT ON CONTAGIOUS DISEASES . PREVALENT IN UTAH AT TfiiSS TME The health report covering the month! of August for the whole sUito of Utah I wan issued Saturday bv the state board of health. Jt show's (lint out of a total population of .'MIS.STH I hero wero.MO deaths from all causes; 10( districts reported no deaths whatever during the month, out of Ht3 districts reporting; 73 districts were froo from all contagious con-tagious diseases. Concerning contagious conta-gious diseases tho reporl is as follows: Scarlet fever, cases f7, deaths .'!: smallpox, small-pox, cases 101. no deaths; dijihtheria and membraneous croup, cases .1, doaths ii; typhoid fever, cases tOS, deaths 2; whooping cough, cases 101, deaths i; measles, cases 1(5, no deaths; chicken pox, capes 17. no deaths; pneumonia, cases 1M (report incomplete), deaths l.'t; tuberculosis, cases 1(5 (report not complete), com-plete), deaths 3. .,,,. The following special bnllclin was issued is-sued Saturday bv the board, through Secretary T 'H. Ttcnttvj .Smallpox font rnry tn Hie usual cx-penenco, cx-penenco, smallpox ' lias boon widHv provalont throughout (h summer innnlhs, nu, tliero is rcaHon lo foav a serious epidemic of tho disoaso duriiiK l no approaehinff winter. As lias been so often sintctl. Utah in relalively de iensolcss against, this d incase because ot Uiu peculiar and unusual preindico ex is tin p ajrniMst vacciuation, which is 1 0 VJ -N'i '?nnwn method of provouthi; n. lleall.li officers and all interested mj the jniblic welfare should do their 11 1 most to con-cut (ho unjustified an-tapoiiism an-tapoiiism to a measure which safely und Buroly prevents this loathsomo h'sese. All persons who have not been hucccsb-tiilly hucccsb-tiilly vaccinated within seven years should promptly have it performed, hchool ehihbou especially should be vaccinated, becauso of (heir t renter lia-u lia-u y 10 con,'Uriou in the schoolroom. It is 1 or the peoplo of tho fitato to elect whether they shall avail themselves of ;i measure which will thoroughly and permniiiMiMy eradicate smallpox, ' as in other slates, jn- continue to submit; as tor ten yeaiv. past to I he annual visitation visit-ation ol hundreds of cases. uhuoninjr cough Tho report of ileatlis irom whooping cough shows an alarming increase, the number being greater than those from scarlot lover and diphtheria combined. Tho efforts to restrict its spread will becomo ef-lective ef-lective only when tho public shall become be-come educated to reeognizo tho fact that it is a serious and (leadly diseaso and not tho trivial affair which it is considered con-sidered by tho majority of people, as a consequence of which' no precautions are taken to prevent its spread. Among miauls no diseaso is more dangerous to hie, and the aftor effects are verv licipiontly serious and permanently injurious in-jurious to those who survive, it is n criminal disregard of the Jaw to permit per-mit cases of whooping cough to go at largo or to associate with other persons, and such cases coming lo the notice of health officers should bo prosecuted. As (he diseaso is not conveyed except by contact with tho person affected, it is unnecessary to quarantine other members mem-bers of the family. Typhoid fever It is gratifying to nolo the reduction in tho number of rc-porled rc-porled deaths from typhoid fever compared com-pared wtih those of the samo month in past years. It is reasonable to assume that at least a part of this reduction is due to the moro general recognition of the agency of flies in the spread of the disease and the measures adopted lo destroy them and exclude them from houses. Continued warfare should be waged against these dangerous pests and. especial precautions taken to exclude ex-clude them from sick rooms. Flics which have becomo contaminated with lyphoid germs are particularly liablo to convey them to milk, either at n dairy beiorc it is distributed, thus endangering en-dangering many consumers, or in the home when not properly protected. Cases ot lyphoid fever which occur on the premises of a dairy or in the vicinitv ol a dairy seriously menace the health and lives of all who use the milk therefrom, there-from, and not only should tho discharges lrom such cases be thoroughly disin-Icctcd disin-Icctcd but tho contents of the outhouses used as a rceeptable for them should .be kepi covered wi(h unslaked lime. Neglect Neg-lect of these precautions is responsible for much of tho spread of the diseate. The milk supply sliould be investigated in all cases of typhoid fever reported, and the investigation should include an inquiry as to tho present or past, existence ex-istence of typhoid fever at any place in the neighborhood of the dairy. |