Show DE DEATH r arh RATE VERY largel measles and pneumonia la on the increase 0 cording to statistics furnished by state health board there ere nere sten deaths during th tb month of december 1907 in carbon county one from pneumonia eight cases a of diphtheria and membranous membra jug croup were ere reported and aix i cites of measles the monthly bulletin of the state health board na s isuel thursday it shows that there were ere an unusual number of cases ot of measles and pneumonia in decerb r scarlet fever cases N ere also numerous ip addition to the bulletin dr T 1 1 beatty L secretary of the board issued S a supplemental statement I 1 in in which he calls attention to th alonce alence of measles and pneumonia and makes recommendations for the tile care of patients afflicted with those diseases disease i and precautions against the spread read of the disease dibease the total number of deaths in D cember wab m ten deaths were received rece ce ived too late to bo be included in the november bulletin the total of scarlet fever cases was with nine deaths smallpox forty eight cades cases with one death diphtheria and brane ous croci croue cases and fourteen f I 1 our deaths typhoid fevel seventy seven ca cases s es with fousteen fou iteen deaths whooping cough cases with no deaths measles 2809 cases with nine deaths chicken chickenpox pox seventy three cabes pneumonia 3 amses with sixty eight deaths i import cases incomplete tuberculosis sixteen cases on an incomplete I 1 aport with thirteen deaths th the bulletin shows that county had the greatest number cases of measles the record v t two 0 deaths next with cases but no deaths in salt lake county there were cases case two deaths A remarkable disclosure is made by a reference to the bulletin for december 1906 when nhen there were all told in utah only cases of inea measles and only one of these in salt lake A year ago fifty cases of scarlet fever were reported the latest bulletin chows shows a total of 1817 cases of which were in salt lake tv twenty renty nine nine I 1 in utah and ten in weber the number of smallpox cases is less than for the corre jing period in 1906 the figures being forty eight a compared with sixty three summit county suffered suf feied more severely than any other from the alenel of smallpox from that couy twenty five casc were but there wei e no deaths ir r fact the only death that occurred from the disease was in weber county salt lake reported only four cases of smallpox incomplete reports show cases u of pneumonia with sixty eight deaths fifty four of these cases and twentythree twenty three deaths were re porte ported d from salt lake county there were twenty four cases and nine deaths in utah and twenty one and four deaths in sanpete San pete in salt lake there were werd sixty nine vases of diphtheria with seven death deaths summit had bad nine cases with three deaths wasatch was afflicted with an unusually large num number berof of cases of wh whooping coping cough the total bei being ng sixty in december 1906 the monthly bulletin showed deaths scarlet lever t s fifty smallpox sixty three liph thoria and croup I 1 ty jy five typhoid fever forty nine whooping hooping W cough fifty nine measles chickenpox chicken pox twenty ti tight i glit against seventy th three ree in 1907 pneumonia tuberculosis ten in a statement issued by D dr r beatty supplemental to tha the december bulletin the secretary says bay with the exception of measles and pneumonia there is not an unusual prevalence of communicable disease in i ML 1 j tam the state outside of salt lake city but it is very important that health officers and teachers lexer exercise cise the utmost vigilance especial cimins 1 oe taken to detect the presence of mild cases as the failure to i recognize and isolate these ca caesus esis chiefly responsible for the spi spread ead of contagion on teion all children appearing at school with so sore e threat of any character should immediately be sent home hom e the apparent mildness of the attack by no means proving that the case is is not one of diphtheria or I 1 scarlet fever feer aggravated symptoms symptom i of a cold i and inflamed lamet eyes should bo be tj 61 with suspicion as they are puy olly present in measles before the appearance appena ance of eruption for the first two days of such ah at attack the pupil should be excluded from school it is recommended commended rop in addition to the quarantine quat antine of all 11 cases of measles that no member 0 of the family shall be permitted to attend school during d uri the course cf 01 the disease an alarming I 1 increase I 1 in th rate was recorded dur ing the month the number of deaths having been double that in the corresponding month during the pro pre year it should be remember ed that pneumonia is a commini communicable germ disease the germs gems being given off in the expectoration all secre secretions eions from the mouth of P per u 1 son affected with pneumonia should be carefully desti destroyed oyed and this precaution should be observed after recovery 1 for a safe period of time A notice to registrars issued by dr beatty reads local registrars are rL reminded minded that the law ge requires quires the tile beginning of a new series of registration number on january 1st of ea each ch year in other words birth and bath records shall begin with no 1 ion on that date |