Springville Herald | 1947-07-17 | Page 4 | Diseases in State are on Decrease

DISEASES IN STATE ARE ON DECREASE Physicians and state health officers offi-cers reported a total of 133 resident resi-dent cases of communicable diseases dis-eases to the State Dept. of Health for the week ending July 4, 1947, as compared with 213 cases for the previous week and 214 cases for the corresponding week last year. Two cases of rheumatic fever were reported during the week, which makes a total of thirty cases cas-es reported since the first of the year. Of the two cases of rheu matic fever this week, one was a boy thirteen years of age from Weber county and the other a girl four years of age from Davis Co. The following is a list of all communicable diseases reported during the week: chickenpox, 26; measles, 3; German measles, 4; mumps, 47; pneumonia, 1; scarlet fever, 3; septic sore throat, 1; tularemia, tula-remia, 1; whooping cough, 20; gonorrhea, 9; syphilis, 16; and j rheumatic fever, 2.