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Show MEASLES EPIDEMIC THROUGHOUT STATE A large increase in the number of cases of measles in Utah in December of 1P16, as compared with the same month of the previous year, is noted by the report of ! the state board of health. Whereas there 1 were only fifteen cases reported for December. De-cember. 1915, there were 4166 rases re-; re-; ported in the same month of 1916. More than one-third of the caes are reported in Salt Lake. This disease, according to physicians, comes in waves, the highest monthly record being 12,000. The death rate was a little more than one-third as high as the birth rate. There were 534 deaths and 1411 births. |