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Show lysis to be reported in 1941 is from Oakley, Summit County. The patient is a bnv 5 years of age. During 1940 a total of CO cases was reported with ti deaths. All of the patients who developed paralysis from this disease during dur-ing VJ40 are now receiving care from the physicians and nurses under the direction of the Crippled Crip-pled Children's Division of the State Board of' Health. Price 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 of cases of pneumonia is noted no-ted 3 cases as compared with 15 for the previous week. Other communicable diseases are as follows: chiekenpox 116, measles 16, Gernnn measles 9, mumps 13, scarlet iVver (i, w hooping hoop-ing cough 57, gonorrhea 14, syphilis sy-philis 32, septic sor throat 1, dysentery dy-sentery (flexner) 1. No diseases were reported from Brigham Cits' nor the following fol-lowing counties: Beaver, Daggett. Kane, Piute, Rich, San Juart, and Wayne. O Health News Local health officers reported to the Utah State Board of Health a total of 428 cases of communicable disease for the week ending January 24 as compared com-pared with 1076 cases for last week and 627 cases of the corresponding cor-responding week in 1940. One hundred and fifty-five cases of influenza were reported from scattered parts of the state which is 638 fewer cases than were reported last week. Three cases of diptheria 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. Diptheria is definitely a preventable preven-table disease. Most of the cases reported in the state occur thru exposure to healthy carriers of this disease. Because of this fact parents are urged to have their! children immunized against this j disease. i The first case of infantile para-! |
