Vernal Express | 1948-03-31 | Page 7 | Uintah County Again Free of Disease Section

uintah county again free of disease uintah C county had another di disease s e ase fr free ee week said aid dr welby bigelow acting state health commissioner tum missioner when he reported d that no diseases were reported reported to his office by the tile I 1 local 0 ca health officers for the wick en ending d ing march 19 chickenpox Chicken pox leads the list of reportable portable rc diseases throughout the tile state again this week but has dropped from cases for the previous week to cases influenza shows a list increase 22 cases over last we weeks k s report according to reports rs from the U S public hea health refe th service influenza has been decreasing for the en entire ti re country during the past several although the influenza epidemic in this state has no not t been extensive dr bigelow s stated that he be I 1 I 1 eved that the peak has been rea reached ched and that the number of cases in utah will decrease and fo follow allow the pattern for the entire country thirty six cases of measles were reported for the week just ended which brings the total for the year to cases although there is no known method of active immunization against measles such as we have for diphtheria smallpox and others the cases may be modified by use of immune globulin blo bulin it if given wah within several days after exposure to the disease cases treated in this way most generally have a much milder infection with fewer if any complications and a shorter period of illness when compared with cases in which the immune globulin Is not used As a result of the mild infection following the administration of immune globulin the cases develop a lasting protection against measles following Is a list of all reportable vatable diseases reported in utah t all for the week chicken chickenpox pox influenza 56 measles 36 german measles 4 mumps 57 pneumonia 5 scarlet fever 16 tuberculosis pulmonary 1 tuberculosis bercu losis other 1 undulant fever 3 whooping cough 13 gonorrhea 10 sy syphilis 8 rheumatic fever 3 and cancer 7 lonier longer freight trains olie the average trel glit train lait last beir consisted ot of 52 can cars compared with 44 can cars in 1920 1926