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Show ARE ALL REPORTS LIKE THIS? Judging from the weekly report of the State Department De-partment of Health which the Herald receives each week, Utah county is -in a very healthy condition, with only one case of Chicken Pox reported in the entire county for the entire week. Up until this week, we have taken considerable stock in the authenticity of this weekly report and have published it faithfully believing that readers were interested in the relative number of diseases existing in the vicinity. But when the report states that one case of Chicken Pox existed in the county during the week ending June 17, and this was the only disease reported for the week, even we can readily see the inaccuracy of such a report and therefor there-for the relative loss of time and space in printing such an article. Should a rough count be made of German measles meas-les cases existing in Springville alone during the past week, we believe the number would exceed a hundred. The state health report lists chicken pox, diphtheria, measles, German measles, mumps, pneumonia, rheumatic rheu-matic fever, Rocky Mountain fever, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, whooping cough, concer, gonorrhea, po-liomyellitis, po-liomyellitis, syphillis, and brucellosis, but not a single case of any of these diseases were reported for the week in the whole of Utah county. We can't Jhelp but wonder just who is the individual, indi-vidual, the single one in the whole county who had the misfortune of having chicken pox during the past week. And we are wondering just which physician in the entire county took that one case of chicken pox so seriously as to report it to the health department. Now we are not sorry that there was only one case of chicken pox in the whole of Utah county the past week, the thing we are sorry about is that such busy men as the acting state health commissioner, the director, division of epidemiology and the many others whose services are required in getting out such a report, has to take the time to put such information infor-mation together and send it out to the various newspapers news-papers and other publications to be published as a health report for the week. So, hereafter, if you miss the weekly health report re-port in the Herald, you will know that the data was not sufficiently correct in our opinion to warrant publication. We don't know where the fault lies in sending out such a report, but we clo know that it has no importance im-portance so far as a report on the communicable diseases of the county or of the state is concerned. |