Show I S L Hospital 1 i 1 I 02 Polio Cases Cases' Stole State Records Total 1 Of 1183 Victims Fly Iy Menace Cited With poliomyelitis cases now registered at Salt Lake General Gen Cen- eral hospital cases of the crippling disease were officially reported In Utah between Jan 1 l' l land and Sept 14 according to reports Mond Monday y from the hospital and the state health department The number of ot resident cases o ot of polio jollo reported to the department in n the we week l t l-t ended Sept 14 11 was 21 the same as the preceding week said Dr William M. M McKay Nonresident Nonresident Nonresident Non Non- resident cases however were one less last week than the preceding wc week k totaling one nonresident case Dr McKay reiterated a warning against flies files believed by the medical medical medi medi- cal profession to play an important Important Important tant part In spreading polio He noted that colder nights will cause the flies to hover around doors and windows and get into the home unless apertures are tightly s screened Ten New Cases Ten new cases of polio were re rc at General hospital Saturday Satur Satu day and Sunday said attendants Twenty-three Twenty of the e paralysis patients patients patients pa pa- are In the hospital Isolation ward and 79 are in the tile convalescent cent ward In 1943 1913 Utah's last polio epidemic epi demic year polio cases canes were officially reported cd between Jan 1 and mid Last y year ar only 17 cases and no deaths were officially off oUi i daily reported during a similar period There have been 14 deaths from train the disease this year and In hi 1943 there were 13 deaths during the corresponding periods Accor According ing to o a letter from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis New York the ratio of polio patients to population during 1945 In Utah are per The highest of any state in the tha country An Await ait Official A distribution by by- counties of of the hew resident cases officially reported last week are Salt Lake City 8 Carbon Summit Tooele Weber and Provo 1 case each Utah county 3 and Ogden 5 Meanwhile Louis C. C Haughey Warm Springs Ga comptroller of the National Foundation for Infantile Infantile In In- Paralysis Is expected to arrive In Salt Lake City Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day with a check for from the foundation treasury toward the fight Ight against infantile paralysis sis ala In Utah said Frank S. S Emery state director of the foundation The grant from the national treasury will not be the first re received re cc- by Utah and it is not net expected ex ex cx to be the last said Mr Emer Emery The present fight against the e dreaded crippling disease has resulted In all aIL allbut but two Utah counties counties counties coun coun- ties Joining pooling their paralysis paralysis' funds under iander a a. central committee working under the state tate board hoard of health |