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Show HYDROPHOBIA GASES State Bacteriologist Kept Busy Investigating Increase In-crease in Rabies. With an average of a dozen cases a week coming to his laboratory at the University Uni-versity of Utah, of which 90 per cent show positive evidences of hydrophobia, Dr. L. L. Daines, state bacteriologist, is being kept exceedingly busy, as the tendency is for the cases to show a grad- , ual increase, as the disease spreads and people in danger realize their predicament ; when attacked and the necessity for de- 1 termination of the case and prompt Pas- j teur treatment.- Dr. Daines yesterday Identified as posi- tive the case of a dog which bit a six- I year-old child the other day at Honey- j ; ville, just north of Brigham Citv. The j child will be rushed to Salt Lake by its parents at once to take the Pasteur treatment treat-ment administered by Dr. T. B. Beatty of the state board of health. Another positive case determined yesterday yes-terday was that of the head of a coyote sent in from Lof green, Tooele county. This coyote had bitten several dogs and domestic animals, which will be destroyed I without delay and before the disease manifests itself outwardly. There is on the way from Payson the j head of a dog suspected of having hydrophobia, hydro-phobia, and Dr. Daines is still working on the heads of a calf and a dog. These cases will be determined this morning. Many other heads are on the way, ac- cording to notification received by the I state bacteriologist in letters yesterday. |