Show HEALTH nofri OFFICERS r CERS tile the annual meeting of 0 health officers will be held in the city and coun ty building salt lake city december irilli beginning at ten a m attention is again called to the law providing that it shall be the duty of 0 all health officers to attend the annual meetings and the duty of town or county authorities as the case may be to defray their necessary traveling and hotel expenses it Is hoped there may be no failure ta to comply with the law as the meeting will be of great value to the public interests of every locality in the state INFANTILE PARALYSIS the fact that cases of anterior poll poli or infantile paralysis havo have recently been reported to the state board of health is of great importance and should be carefully noted by health officers many states have been afflicted with severo severe epidemics of the malady and all known measures for its prevention should be adopted to avert a similar experience in utah the disease has been proven to be infectious and while the specific microorganism which causes it has not as yet been discovered there can bo be no doubt as to its existence and that the usual dis infecting agents destroy it much remains to be discovered concerning the modes of transmission but that it may result from personal contact there is little doubt also it Is known that the secretions of the nose ind and mouth of a person affected are infectious all cases of the disease should oe e immediately reported to the state board of health the patient should be isolated and other members of 0 the family should be excluded front from school for a period of two weeks insects and animals should be carefully excluded from the patients room the secretions from the nose and mouth and the excreta should be ills dis infected also all articles contaminated by the patient following death or recovery from the acute stage of the disease should be performed as in other contagious diseases STATE SANITARY INSPECTOR health are requested to advise the state board of health when in their opinion a visit to their locality by the state sanitary inspector would aid them in their efforts to promote the public health it is especial ally desired that this notification shall be made m when hen an epidemic of any communicable muni cable disease prevails or in cases in which the local health officer finds it difficult to enforce the law SMALLPOX smallpox is prevailing in epidemic form in alff different raint localities in the state ind and there Is reason to fear its extensive spread vaccination Is urgently recommended as the only means of preventing the disease |