Show Doctor Shows Davis Ills Drop In 1949 KAYSVILLE KA The liThe use r such 1 as T has apparently cut cul gown own the rate of oC pneumonia in ine ft e TV Pr D Ty Ko V tUh 5 h of the Davis county health center reported Thursday In the prewar years he de de- declared de- de we had records of o as high as 50 pneumonia cases ner per month Now No since the introduction of and similar drugs dru s in 1940 our pneumonia rate has rapidly dwindled In 1949 we had record of only one case of oC pneumonia pneumonia pneumonia monia in the county Notes Education Value Dr Barnes also paid tribute to the value of health education and he growing tendency to call or visit the doctor at the first symptom tom of illness Reporting the tho sick sick- PIPS ss ss in its early stages sta es allows a 1 to battle the disease in n earliest and weakest stages he said Dr Barnes also showed on 1 graphs how temperature cloudiness cloudiness ness and the incidence of l. pneumonia mania monia in Davis county were well wen correlated During Durin cloudy days day's mod ind low temperatures the increase in n pneumonia cases were much greater than on sunny days with Vim relatively high hiSh temperatures His Hie Hischar's charts chars were based on health and weather bureau reports for the past several years Follow Pattern In In showing the charts on the measles incidence in the county Dr Barnes pointed out that mea measles meades des cles in the county teemed Deemed to follow a pattern every four or r five years The same pat pat- pattern pattern pattern tern was true for lor other childhood diseases he said The explanation may be that some children may not develop an immunity to the dis diseases dis- dis diseases eases if they are arc not exposed in four or five live years but then when an outsider introduces the disease it strikes them all aU According to the records another is due in l Davis county in about two or three years the last one being beIn beInin in 49 1948 when 1000 cases were reported |