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Show tnhPtrulosis 3; tularemia, 3; un- scalp, 2. and local health of J to the. week ending October 3 amount ed to 83 cases, whic h is only slight" increase over the M catw reported for the For the same week last year, two cases were reported. ( For the last several ' k, U r start has been particuUrly tcT tunate in having a m'n inun number of diseases reported 0 dinarily communicable diseases , are at a minimum during the summer months of the ex cent for years of unusual ' dence of certain diseases, such as , the poliomyelitis epidemics ot recent years During the last three poliomyelitis epWemrcs in Utah (1943. 1945. 1Mb), by the greatest number of eases have been reported during the months of August and September, with the peak coming about the loth ol September One case of poliomyelitis, B white male child four years age, was reported from Carbon county this week. Tils is the ! thirdcase of poliomyelitis report- . i i(i ini'ii Tne eu trom uaiooii tumnj first of the year, which amounts to one-third of the total number I of cases in the state since Janu-' Janu-' ary 1, 1947. , 4. . It is hoped and anticipated that j Utah will escape a polio epidemic this year, particularly in view i of the fact that there have only I been nine cases reported so far. and that we are pretty well beyond be-yond the peak period of former epidemics. ., The following is a list of all diseases reported during the weak: chiekenpox, 32; infantile paralysis, 1; measles, 1; German measles, 2; mumps, 10; scarlet fever, 3; septic sore throat, 2; HEALTH NEWS Resident communicable diseas ' cases and other notifiable diseases dis-eases reported to the state department de-partment of health by physicians |