| Show HEALTH COLUMN by the COUNTY NURSE there wits was an increase ot of per cent in the number of new anse of influenza reported to tho the attali state board of health luring during the week k ending february 0 21 01 2 1 over the previous week according to the weekly communicable disease report released today there were increases also in pox por scarlet fever pneumonia and whooping cough and slight decreases in mumps dip diphtheria theria and tuber tu lost losla the significant thing about tills this report according to dr 3 L jones state health commissioner it that there was such a tremendous increase lit in the number of cases casca of public health authorities who have made particular studies of disease cycles have been predicting it marked increase in the number of cases of influenza during the period according to dr william M W mckay director of the division of communicable disease control dr mckay says saya that during the first seven weeks of 1038 the united states public health service reported cases of influenza lit in the united states as compared with only 2772 for tho the first seven weeks of 1039 the week ending february 18 1039 1930 however showed an increase of per cent over dver the corresponding week in 1038 this increase was reported principally from four southern and two midwestern mid western states forty seven eases cases of influenza were reported to the utah state board of if health last week as compared with only 19 for the previous week dr mckay says nino nine tee of these cases were reported from CCO camps at eureka juab county and park valley lu in box elder county men in iliesco hese camps campa under army regulations are kept in strict isolation dr mckay explained pla ined tout but due to the fact that influenza spread very easily anally he ha warned the public to avoid all contact with persons known to bate the infection |
