Show { I | Utah Health Report ReportShows ReportShows Shows Improvement ImprovementOne One hundred and seventy five fivene fivene fivene ne v or cases of communicable commumcable dlSea.e dlSeae disease dlSea.ewere diseasewere diseasewere : . were reported to the Utah state stateboard stateboard stateboard board of health during the weel week weekending weecending ! : endmg ending October 27 according accordmg to Dr DrWllllam DrWilliam DrWilliam Wllllam William M McKay director of DrI the thedivIsion thedivision thedivision I divIsion of communicable disease diseasecontrol diseasecontrol control This is a"decrease adecrease a a.decrease adecrease . decrease of only onlythree onlythree onlythree " three cases from "ast ast " last week but a adecrease adecrease adecrease decrease of 97 cases from the cor- cor correspondmg corresponding cor corresponding - responding respondmg week last yearDecreases yearDecreases year yearDecreases Decreases were reported in the thenumber thenumber thenumber number of new cases of Infiuenza influenza influenzamumps Influenzamumps mumps scarlet fever tube cuiosis culosis cuiosisand culosisand culosisand \ and whooping cough while In Increases increases tocreases creases occurred in the number of ofnew ofnew ofnew new cases of chickenpox cillckenpox InfantJe infante InfantJeparalysis infanteparalysis infant-leparalysis infant leparalysis - paralysis measles and German Germanmeasl Germanmeasles Germanmeasles measl measles s The Infrequently reported reporteddiseases reporteddiseases reporteddiseases diseases diseaseshlCh \ which \\hlCh hlCh occurred during the theweck theweek theweek weck week Ju just t ended were one case 01 of 01septlc ofseptic ofseptic septlc septic sore throat In Carbon coun coup county coupty counLty ty one case of unclassified dysen dysenI dysentery dysentery dysentery I tery in Grand county and eight eightcases eightcases cases of uncla unclassified unclad slfied sifted dysentery incan in inSLa 'an an can " ' SL-a SL a - Juan county and one case of oflethargIc oflethargic oflethargic lethargIc encephalitis encephalltls ( sleepmg sleeping sleepingsickness sleepingsickness sickness ) reported from Umtah Umtahcounty Umtahcounty UmtahcountyEleven county countyEleven Eleven of Utah Utahs s 29 counties re reported reported reported ported no communicable dIseases diseasesfor diseasesfor for the \ week eek Reports were recelV recerv recervbd received bd d ho\\ ho how however hoever \ ever from all exce except t two twocounties twocounties counbcs counties This is a splend d recoret record recordindeed recordindeed mdeed indeed Dr McKay said and It Itmdlcates itindicates itindicates mdlcates indicates the degree of cooperatIOn cooperationwhich cooperationwhich which \ hlch the state board Of health IS ISreCelVlng isreceiving isreceiving reCelVlng receiving from practicing practlcmg phYSicians phYSiciansand physiciansand physiciansand and local health officeis oUlcels officers One of ofthe ofthe ofthe the most effective \ weapons eatons : in the thecontrol thecontrol thecontrol control of di disease ease is timely bmely and andeffective andeffective andeffective effective reporting reportmg reportingIt reportmgIt It is a C1\ C1 cry civic C1ic \ ic lc responsibility respmslbillty : of ofevery ofevery ofevery every cltlzon citizen citiz n it was pointed pomted out outat outat outat at the state st'1.te st1.te st1te ' . public pubJlc health office to torepol toreport torepoit repol report t to his physician or to the thelocal thelocal thelocal local health officer any sickness sicknesswhich sicknesswhich sicknesswhich which he suspects is contagious contagiousThis contagiousThis contagiousThis This is particularly true \ when hen SI sich sichsicknesses sichsicknesses ch chsicknesses sicknesses occur in one ones sown sownhomp own ownhome ownhorn homp home ? 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