| Show HEAlTH HEAD WARNS ARNS AGAINST FEVER kj- kj Dozen Cases of Spotted Malady Malady Mal Mar i ady Expected in State Within Few Weeks f Utah can cm expect about a n. dozen dozer cases of oC Rocky mountain spotted fe fever rc- rc ver er in the next few weeks provided pro the law of oC averages maintains Dr th T T. B. B Beatty state commissioner of or health and president of or the International Inter Inter- national Association of oC Stats State and Provincial Health Authorities said Laid Monday 1 Dr Beatty urged that persons working In the open especially those working In i sheep camps and around sheep shep avail them themselves elves of oC the opportunity opportunity to get the prophylactic which is available at tho the office of oC the state board of health Dr Beatty suggests that since ince this thI preventive Is sent on order from Crom the laboratory at Hamilton Hamilton Hamil I HamilIton ton Mont application to the thc health office should be made ahead of oC the tha time wanted There arc are about cases of this fever er a year in this country Dr said Iii In Utah the cases cases 31 31 In three years years have have been mild but still there have ha been en three fatalities Two T of these were In Salt Lake county county coun coun- ty but the disease had been incurred in n Idaho and W Wyoming The other fatality was In Cache county DEATH RATE HIGH In some parts of the west especially cape espe daily in the Bitterroot valley in Montana Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana the death rate is 90 per cent There arc many things p peculiar to the disease First it is preventable plc by the method devised in Montana by bythe bythe bythe the bureau of public health This treatment is 15 be beyond ond the experimental tal stage Ne Next t it is carried only by wood ticks Third if an Infected tick bites a person not artificially immunized that person 1 is going to get bet spotted lever fever Finally FInall a person can contracting the disease is entirely in the lap of providence providence provi- provi dence deuce and can cm generally guess his chances by looking over the record of previous cases for the locality Just why one side of th the Bitterroot Bitterroot Bitter- Bitter root yoot valley should have ha a mortality rate of oC 90 SOper per cent and the other side cf of the valley vaHey be entirely free from Crom the infection is one of the mysteries which medical science has to solve Also Alsoe e we ve must learn why this disease and other diseases es have degrees oi of 01 virility which vary ary according to the time and the place AREA REA SPREADS The sad thing about the tick fever is that the fatality area seems to oe e c spreading At the recent meeting o otile Oi the tile association in Washington it was brought o out t that the sickness had showed up in its fatal form in many parts of the thc cast east The death list is no longer confined to sections of the west In Utah there is hardly a county which l ch has not reported the disease at some time or other The tick uses sheep and other animals as hosts hence most of our cases arc among tho those working with or near sheep In 1930 the thc following counties reported the sickness Cache fatal fataI Juab Sanpete Summit Uintah Boxelder and Utah In most cases eases the victims had been working in the hills The I Utah count county report shows that a boy I had been out at the thc mouth of a canyon canyon can can- yon for an outing came home with a tick and later showed up with the fever fc In Iii 1929 Bo elder Duchesne Juab Salt Lake Rich and counties reported cases One of the Sanpete cases was a child 4 years old The fever showed up in a a. sheep camp in Beaver county in 1923 Other counties reporting were Cache Davis Duchesne Wasatch Salt Lake and Tha Th two Salt Lake cases one from Idaho and the other from Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming died GIVES ADVICE i The Davis county victim was a aman aman aman man who had gone into the mountains mountains mountains moun moun- to get some wood or look after s some mc sheep The victim in Wasatch county was a fisherman My advice to all those who go into tick country fro from now until the thc middie middle middle mid mid- dle die of July or thereabouts is that they make frequent inspections of their clothes and th their thIr ir bodies to see that there are arc no ticks A tick is apt to sta stay on the body or in the clothes for several se hours haulS before making up UI his his' mind just where he wants to bite Those persons who are going to be exp exposed sed continually especially in sheep camps should get the trophy trophy- I lactic t |
