Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-07-21 | Page 8 | Whooping Cough Serious

WHOOPING COUGH SERIOUS S Represents 1 Fifty Per Cent ClIt of Klous lon II Disease cu cs in Slate State Fifty per cent of o th the people of Utah who suffered from Crom corn contagious or 01 I infectious diseases last month had hall whooping cough according to the bulletin just Issued by the state stute hoard board o of health The reports were not complete com com- but of the districts reporting 3 15 cases Ses of or contagious or Infectious disease existed and of oC this number I had whooping cough Only six out of the cases e proved fatal which Is a small percentage in comparison comparison comparison com com- parison tt with some soma of the other othel diseases dis dis- eases reported It Is presumed that the majority o of tho the whooping cough cases reported existed among children chil chil- children dren although the report issued bythe by bythe bythe the state board does not show this The percentage of oC deaths from tuberculosis last month was the largest largest larg larg- est cst of any o of oC the dl diseases reported Of at the nine cases known jo to exist six Ix proved pro to be fatal falah Pneumonia came next In ht the list fourteen of oC the twentythree twentythree three ty-three patients suffering from the disease having died Three cases of oC ty hoid proved pro fatal twenty one one beIng beng be- be Ing ng reported and of or twenty three ee cases Caes of or o diphtheria but one ended fa fatally tall Fifty Tifty cases of smallpox and twenty-six twenty cases of scarlet fever fe were reported not ono one of which proved pro fatal