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Show TWO BIQPROBLEHS How In Mop lining!1 of Thl. nnd the Hxittcil 1'ctrr. Utah' ntnto board of limllh I nt thl time confronted by two problem. prob-lem. "How to atop the nuRC of polnonou tick, which cnuie apotted feer," nnd "How to ncutrnllx the work of the deer fly wIiono bite I" polaonou " lr t.laton I'nlnc of the United Htnte publlo health RcrvliT, I In Halt Uiko City from Idaho, where ho hn leen for fle month Inveall-gntlng Inveall-gntlng allotted feer of whleh there were thru hundred nnd alxtj cantm. rerultlng In twent -three dnith. The doctor I here on reiiet from the I'tnh atnte board of htHilth, for lnvetl gatloti dlmllar to that rnrrled on In Idaho, nnd I In ronntnnt communlen-tlon communlen-tlon with Or T It. Il(witt)', Hecretnry of thu ntnto iHiard of health t)r l'nlne n 'Thl dlcnne la called llocky Mountain Moun-tain fever, nnd prevail In nil mountain moun-tain Htnte except Arizona and New Mexico, It I ennaed by bite of wood tick Infecting amnll Krniind rodent which nro often dlaenaed. Tho germ of tho dlRciiHe pn Into the tnaect n It nuck tho nnlmnl' blood, nnd when the tick Inter faaten onto n human being tho dlnonne germ pnr Into the permin' body a (lie peat bite and draw blood. "ThcRc tick live on only tha clniw of nnlmnl mentioned nnd the solution solu-tion of the trouble, n It nppenrs now, I to kill off tho Infected rodent Ulrrela, gopher nnd chipmunk. Another remedy I to drive Hheep through the tick Infected loculltle. The InaectN faaten on the sheep, nnd tho oil In tho sheep' wool choke tho peat. Thl tick I nn entirely different differ-ent Insect from whnt I known n the sheep tick. Tho trouble Is spreading In mun directions, so thut iulck action ac-tion I necessary. In Utah there were thirty-six case of spotted fever nnd three death this )enr." Tho deer f l bite nppears to bo mi t only In Utah, and the result la blood polMinlng found to bo fatal In u number num-ber of cuses. It pathology nt present pres-ent doe not seem to be very will understood un-derstood and I)r, I'nlno will do somo labonitory work In connection with his InvcNtlgntloua In this direction. |