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Show Report Discloses Communicable Disease Cases Last Year Double Total for 1937 Communicable and Infectious disease dis-ease in Salt Lake City during 1938 more than doubled th 1937 figures, It was reported Wednesday by the city board of health. Statistics compiled by Miss Gertrude Ger-trude Moyle showed 78SS cases In 11)38 compared with 3719 In 1937. Dr. T. J.. Howells. heaHh cora-Iriissioner. cora-Iriissioner. In a letter accompanying th report to Mayor John M. Wallace, Wal-lace, aaid: 'The year of 1938 has been a ban-Ber ban-Ber year in health. In several week ly Instance ther was no major Contagion ... no epidemic were reported during the year . . The accompanying chart ahowa the disease figures for each month, as compiled by Miss Moyle: Increase were noted in mumps, with IMS cases in 1938, only BS in 1937; chickenpox. 1519 in 193S, 1130 in 1937; typhoid fever, four in 1938, three In 1937, and measles 4161 cases in 1938, compared with only 918 In 1937. ' In hi letter to th mayor, Dr. Howells referred briefly to th tu berculosis and pneumonia death rates, stating both were "too high" and that "much remains to be done in 1939" from th standpoint of community health. Births outnumbered deaths more than 2000 during the year, the report re-port continued, with 3828 births and 1821 deaths. In 1937 3161 births and 1891 deaths were recorded. Male outnumbered female in th birth column, th report ahowed, with 2013 males and 1815 females, while In 1937 th girl beat out th boys, 1834 to 1818. Disease Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Total Bcarlet fever 67 45 43 41 20 18 9 4 10 5 29 31 322 Whooping cough 19 16 31 16 29 40 75 64 33 19 6 8 356 Mumps 53 62 237 250 226 234 133 83 25 16 42 154 1515 Chickenpox 293 262 304 103 74 77 53 7 23 64 104 155 1519 Diphtheria 2 1 1 .. 2 1 1 1 1 10 German measles ' 4 7 3 5 11 1 2 2 .. 1 .. 38 Epidemic meningitis ...1 ,. .. 1 2 Tuleremia ...1 .. . . .. 2 3 6 Typhoid 1 1 1 . ' 1 .. 4 Infantile paralysis y 1 . . 1 R. M. spotted lever -3 .. .. 3 Small pox ,.1 14 .. 4 .. 19 Malta fever ' 1 HeasJes 48 336 1025 835 834 826 1119 24 4 10 2 8 4161 Totals 484 139 1649 1274 1190 1211 466 185 98 116 186 357 7955 |