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Show I MUST CHECK TUBERCULOSIS. In ihr early settlement of I tab . tuberculosis ursS almost unknown un-known and even durmp later years the disease was not thought f( as a mcnaee t the general health, hut statistics made public Tuesday by the I'tah Public Health association indicate that pulmonary tu-bareulaail tu-bareulaail has inert-used to an extent )Uiie disturbing, ami calling for more careful isolation than has hcen observed In the last three years. 650 persons have died Of this number, 895 deaths occurred in Salt Lake. r more than one-half of the fatalities fa-talities in the entire state. To influen.a is attributed many of the tubercular cases, but th" spreHil of disease is principally chargoaMe to lack of control, It has hern found that often mothers of larpe families, when in I ihe most infectious Mape, remain in olse contact with their children I and frequently no sanitary precautions are taken to avoid commu-ni commu-ni eating the disease. Of the 550 deaths, 96 occurred in 10.19. Only 35 were natives, of Utah, had lived within the state less than a ear and 22 had been here from two to five years. The health hoard reports there is no institution in the stnte, ex-1 cept the Salt Lake onnty hospital, prepared to accommodate ami properly nurse those suffering of tuberculosis, Before the disease becomes more serious, a widespread camps 'u'li should be started for the purpose of properly treating those in the fiilt stages f the disease and of isolating the hopelessly afflicted. Tuberculosis is in great part preventable and. b the enforcing of proper sanitary requirements, may he restricted to a very small I percentage of the population. |