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Show Health News HEALTH REPORTS ARE ENCOURAGING The encouraging part of the weekly report of communicable disease submitted to the Utah State Board of Health by local health officers for the week ending end-ing November 15, is that there were 125 fewer cases reported than for the corresponding week in 1939. Chickenpox leads the list with 63 cases. Whooping cough and scarlet fever were a close second, sec-ond, with 25 and 24 cases, respectively. re-spectively. The incidence of scarlet fever shows a rather marked increase over Uie previous week. While the distribution of these cases is rather general throughout the state, more than half of them were reported from Salt Lake City and county- Fortunately, scarlet fever in the past few years in Utah has been of a rather rath-er mild nature. However, parents par-ents should be constantly on their guard since it has been observed ob-served by physicians that heart, kidney, and ear complications occur just about as frequently in these so-called "light cases' as with the more severe types. Any youngster with scarlet fever should be kept in bed until all symptoms have completely subsided- A frequent examination should be made by the attending physician of the urine to determine deter-mine whether or not the kidneys have become involved-Judging involved-Judging by the report, pneumonia pneu-monia is still prevalent; 21 cases were reported for the week. The State Board of Health announces an-nounces to the physicians of the state that sera and drugs will be furnished gratis to them for the treatment of their medically indigent patients. It is to be hoped hop-ed that the physicians will take advantage of this liberal offer. Applications for sera and drugs should be made directly to the offices of the State Health Commissioner, Com-missioner, Utah State Board of Health. Two cases of typhoid fever were reported, one from Sevier and the other from Utah county. Two cases of poliomyelitis (infantile (in-fantile ouralysis) were reported from Sanpete county-Other county-Other communicable diseases reported were as follows: influenza influ-enza 6, measles 3, German measles meas-les 1, mumps 13, septic sore throat 1, tuberculosis 1, other tuberculosis 1, gonorrhea 13, syphilis 12, amoebic dysentery 1, and streptococcus meningitis 1-Brigham 1-Brigham and Richfield and the following counties reported "no diseases": Beaver, Daggett, Duchesne, Du-chesne, Emery, Garfield, Grand, Piute, San Juan, Tooele and Washington. |