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Show Immunized Your Children FARMINGTON - Davis County Health Department personnel are "making every effort possible" to immunize all Davis School District students, it was announced today by Dr. Richard E." Johns Jr., director of the Davis County Health Department. Depart-ment. HE SAID the number of unimmunized children is getting get-ting fewer and fewer but that there are still a few scattered in schools throughout the district. dis-trict. He emphasized that it is a state requirement that students be immunized before entering school. ALTHOUGH Salt Lake County's policy is to keep unimmunized students out of school, Dr. Johns said he prefers to "work with the parents on an individual basis instead of creating a blanket policy of excluding children from school." Mrs. Dolleen Jewett, direc- ; tor of county health nurses, told the Davis Board of Health that only about ten percent of the schools in the Davis School District have any ' children attending who are not immunized. This has been reduced from more than 50 percent, she said. SHE SAID that there are so many clinics readily available availa-ble to give immunization shots that there is no reason parents can't get their children immunized, even those who do not want, or can not afford to attend a private physician for this purpose. Immunization clinics are available at the following sites: BASEMENT OF the Davis County Courthouse, Farming-ton, Farming-ton, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 1 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.; in the basement of the Clearfield Branch of Davis County Library, Tuesdays Tues-days from 1 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.; and in the basement of the Bountiful Branch of the Davis County Library, Thursdays Thurs-days from 1 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. Dr. Johns said that every effort is being made to have every student in Davis County immunized and that exclusion of students from school will be only "as a last resort." ALSO, A new program to encourage doctors and hospital hospi-tal personnel to report all communicable diseases to the Davis County Health Department Depart-ment is underway. Alan Parker, representing the County Health Department, Depart-ment, told the County Health Board that the new program has only been in operation one month but that he is "pleased with the response although he is not entirely pleased with . the number of doctors reporting."- ... HE EXPLAINED that state law requires that doctors report all communicable diseases to their County Health Department Dr. Johns said that the "ever present" streptococcal infection was with Davis County residents again with 39 cases reported. There were also 14 cases of staphlygoccal infection, one of gonorrhea, one of salmonella, two of hepatitis, and two of encephalitis, en-cephalitis, grb |
