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Show Public Health Local health officers nreported to the Utah State Board of Health Heal-th a total of 428 cases of communicable com-municable disease for the week ending January 24 as compared wiih 1076 cases for last week and 627 cases of the corresponding week in 1940. One hundred and fifty-five cases of influenza were reported from scattered parts of the State which is 638 fewer cases thun were reported last week. Three cases of diphtheria were reported two from Salt Lake City and the other from Salt Lake County. Two of these cases were infants and the other an adult. Diphtheria is definitely a preventable disease. Most of the cases reported in the State occur through exposure to healthy carriers car-riers of this disease. Because of this fact parents are urged to have their children immunized against this disease. The first case of infantile paralysis par-alysis to be reported in 1941 is from Oakley, Summit County. The patient is a boy 5 years of age. During 1940 a total of 60 cases was reported with 6 deaths. All of the patients who developed develop-ed paralysis from this disease during 1940 are now receiving care from the physicians and nurses under the direction of the Crippled Children's Division of the State Board of Health. Pnice City reported one case of tularemia. The patient is 13 years of age and the source of infection is listed as "rabbits." A decided decrease in the number num-ber cases of pneumonia is noted, 3. cases as compared with 15 tor the previous week. Other communicable diseases are as follows: chickenpox 116, measles 16, German measles 9, mumps 13, scarlet fever 6, whooping whoop-ing cough 57, gonorrhea 14, syphilis syp-hilis 32, septic sore throat 1, and dysentery (flexner) 1. No diseases were reported from Brigham City nor the following counties: Beaver, Daggett, Kane, Piute, Rich, San Juan or Wayne. |