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Show HEALTH REPORT FOR PAST WEEK Two hundred and thirty-seven resident cases of notifiable diseases dis-eases were reported for the week ending January 30, 1948, to the State Department of Health by physicians and state health officers. offi-cers. Last week 324 cases were reported and 359 cases for the corresponding cor-responding week last year. The main decrease this week over last week was the drop in chickenpox cases from 135 to 101. Scarlet fever dropped from thirty-six cases last week to nineteen cases this week. Scarlet fever is caused by an organism called the "hemolytic streptococcus," and this same organism is frequently the cause of streptococcal sore throat, streptococcal tonsilitis, and septic sore throat. All of these infections have been listed under "Respiratory Streptococcal Infection" Infec-tion" in our communicable disease rules and regulations, "The .Control .Con-trol of Communicable Diseases." Regulations ' require isolation of these cases for a period, of fourteen four-teen days, providing there are no complications. No quarantine restrictions re-strictions are placed on contacts, or in other words, persons exposed to the streptococcal infections mentioned' above. |