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Show d'f many are left with defects of vision and hearing. The advice of the family physician phy-sician should always be sought for any member of the family having Yneasles who is under 6 years of age. Thirty-eight cases of syphilis i were reported as compared with 12 for the previous week. This increase is probably due to more complete reporting rather than to an actual increase in the number num-ber of cases. r Health News A total of 724 cases of communicable commu-nicable disease was reported to the Utah State Board of Health for the week ending March 1, 1940. There were 68 more cases reported for the past week than for the previous week. The increases in-creases were noted in the number num-ber of cases of chickenpox, mumps, whooping cough, and measles. Three cases of diphtheria were reported; one from Sanpete county coun-ty and two from Utah county. The attention of parents is again called to the fact that diphtheria is a preventable disease and no youngster should be left unprotected. unpro-tected. One hundred and forty-eight cases of measles were reported from Tooele county. This disease usually occurs in periods or cycles cyc-les of about three years and practically prac-tically all children are susceptible suscepti-ble to it. One thing parents are often heard to say: "Let them have measles and get it over with". Unfortunately, "getting it over with" is not so simple, for many children are left permanently perma-nently injured by this disease and some die. Throughout the country generally measles kills several thousand children under five years of age every year. The death rate from measles in age groups older than five years is very low. The younger the child the more likely is the infection to be fatal. If all children under five years of age could be protected pro-tected from measles, deaths from this wide-spread disease would almost cease. Unfortunately, there is no method of securing permanent protection from measles by vaccination. vac-cination. However, through the use of convalescent serum and whole-blood taken from someone who has had the disease, children child-ren in the age group under five years can be protected temporarily. The immunity thus produced is not permanent but is sufficient to protect the youngster through the immediate epidemic. This procedure should be repeated by the family physician as often as measles occurs in the neighborhood neighbor-hood until the youngster is of school age. The high death rate from measles in the age group under five years is due principally princi-pally to the development of bronchial pneumonia which frequently fre-quently follows an attack of this disease. In addition to those who i |