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Show DISEASE RETORT , fiiVKN FOR WEEK Kor tlw woek ending September 1" S. physicians ami state bo'iltli' officers reported a total of S'i resident cases of notifiable dis-o'es dis-o'es to the State Department of Ho'iltn. That represents a drop of 1", cases over the 9G reported Inst ,veeknnd nn increase of 15 cases r the tkS reported for the cor rospondinj: 1947- Chiekenpox, measles, mumps, I pneumonia, whooping cough, and conorrhra nil showed decreases as compared with the number for the ix ,,rfvioiis week. The most notable diseases showing nn increase over - last' week are infantile paralysis with 11 ovor two for last; week and pulmonary tuberculosis with x 10 over one. . Eleven cases of poliomyelitis have been reported during the J Week. They have been distributed . as follows": Salt Lake City, 9; ' and one each from Washington V and Salt Lake Counties. That is V the first poliomyelitis case repor-' repor-' ted from Washington County so s; far this year. i Since the first of the year, 52 cases of poliomyelitis have been X reported to the State Department i. 0 Health. The cases have been -0 reported by only 10 out of the i ' 29 counties in the State. Salt Lake :': County (including Salt Lake City) has had 41 cases; Emery County c 3- Iron, 2; and one each from Davis, Da-vis, Weber, Uintah, Carbon, Utah and Washington counties. The outbreak out-break (not epidemic) up to this time has been localized in Salt Lake County. They have had 41 out of the 52 cases reported this " year. Thirty-four of the 41 cases in Salt Lake County have been re- ported from the City, which lo-calizes lo-calizes the outbreak still more. |