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Show DIPHTHERIA SITUATION IS SERIOUS IN WEST END. County Health Officer, Dr. A. N. Leonard, is somewhat alarmed over the prevalence of diphtheria at Newcastle, New-castle, in the Western part of this county, and the fact that it is not known how many people may have been exposed to the dread disease. Last Friday he received a telephone call from Mr. Robert Piatt of that place, who had a child two years old with a severe cough that they were unable to control. From the history piven of the case the physician thoupht. it probable that the child had some foreign body in its lung, and advised the parents to bring it here for diagnosis diag-nosis and treatment. This they did the following day and it was taken at once to the Southern Utah Hospital, Hospit-al, in which the doctor and his family fam-ily also reside. On further inquiry into the case and after watching it closely for a day, the physician found suspicious symptoms, indicating diphtheria, diph-theria, and sent a culture from the child's throat to the state biologist, who notified the doctor that it was an unmistakable case of diphtheria. Other quarters were immediately found for the patient and its parents, and the hospital thoroughly disinfected. disinfect-ed. At the same time careful enquiry elicited the information that there have been a number of cases of the disease at Newcastle this winter, and the doctor is fearful that the disease may have gained a considerable foothold. |