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Show REPORTS OF LEPROSY WERE UNFOUNDED Dr. T. B. Beatty of the .State Board of Health and Health Commissioner Wilcox went to North Salt Lake yesterday yes-terday to investigate two Cases of suspected sus-pected leprosy in a Kanaka family. The alleged victims were found with a simple skin disease which Is not infectious. infec-tious. The only cases of leprosy ever existing exist-ing in Utah were in the Hawaiian colony col-ony in Skull valley several years ago. The victims were isolated and have since died, leaving the State entirely free from this loathsome disease. ,. t |