| Show HEALTH suggestions SMALLPOX SMALL POX contrary to the usual experience smallpox small pox has been widely prevalent throughout the summer months and there Is reason to fear a serious epidemic i of the disease during the approaching pro aching winter As has been so I 1 often stated utah Is relatively defenseless dea fen seless against this disease bee because a U PC i of the je peculiar culiar and unusual I 1 prejudice existing against vaccination which Is the the only known method of preventing it H health officers I 1 and nil all interested in the public welfare should do their utmost utmos tto to correct the unjustified antagonism to a in measure which safely and surely prevents tills this loathsome disease all persons who have not been suc cess fully vaccinated vaccina ted within seven years should promptly have it performed SC school hool children especially should be vaccinated vaccina ted because ot of their greater liability to contagion in the school room it is tor for tile the people of the state to elect whether they shall avail themselves ot of a measure which will thoroughly I 1 and permanently eradicate smallpox small pox as in other states or continue to submit as tor for ten years past to the annual visitation ot of hundreds ot 0 cases WHOOPING COUGH the report ot of deaths from whooping cough shows an alarming ln in crease rease the number being greater I 1 than those from scarlet fever and j diphtheria combined the efforts to restrict its spread will become effect 1 lye ive only when the public shall become educated to recognize the fact that it is a serious and deadly disease disease and not the trivial affair which it is considered by the majority of people as a consequence of no precaution it taken to prevent its spread among infants no disease is more dangerous to lite life and the after effects are very frequently serious and permanently injurious to those who survive it is a criminal disregard of the law to permit cases ot oi whooping cough to go at large or to associate with other persons and such case cases coming to the notice of health officers should be prosecuted As ethe the disease gass Is I 1 not conveyed except by contact I 1 with the person it Is unnecessary to quarantine quarantine other ment mem bers of the family TYPHOID FEVER it Is gratifying to note the reduction in the number ot of rep reported oried deaths from typhoid fever compared with those of the same month in past years it Is reasonable to assume that at least A a part ot of this reduction Is due to the more general recognition of 0 the agency ot of lies flies in the spread ot of the disease and the measures adopted to destroy them and exclude them from houses costill COu till tied warfare war tare should be waged agal against fist 1 these dangerous pests and especial precautions taken to exclude them from sic krooms flies files which have become contaminated with typhoid germs are particularly liable to convey them to milk either at a dairy before it is distributed thus endangering many consumers or in the home when not proper protected cases ot of typhoid fever ever which occur on the premises ot of a dairy or in the va vicinity of a dairy seriously menace the health and lives of all laho who use the milk and not only should the discharges from such cases be thoroughly dis infected but the contents of the out houses used as a receptacle for them should be kept covered with cd lime neglect of 0 these precautions Is responsible I 1 for much of 0 the spread of the disease the milk supply should be investigated in all cases of typhoid fever reported and the investigation should include an inquiry as to the present or past existence of typhoid fever at any place in the neighborhood of the dairy T B BEATTY secretary |
