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Show M Some Diseases ' Show Increases Reports of eommunicaible disease from the state for the week ending end-ing January 26 showed an increase in-crease over the previous week. A total of 620 cases of communicable communi-cable disease were reported as compared with 541 cases for the week ending January 19. This increase was due largely to an increase in-crease in the number of cases of whooping cough; 149 for the week ending January 26, as compared com-pared with S7 for the previous week. There was a total of 149 cases of measles reported; 50 of these being reported from Cache there is no serum nor vaccine which will permanently immunize youngsters a g ai n s t measles, it is recommended that' convalescent serum be used to protect children under five years of age. The mortality from measles meas-les is high in this age group and everything possible should be done to protect them against the disease until they are of school age. The use of whole-blood from some member of the family who has had moaslesusua!ly affords a temporary immunity. This is a simple procedure which can be performed by the family physician physi-cian in the home, and is urgently recommended by all public health workers. Inoculation against whooping cough is also recommended because be-cause of the high mortality in the infant and preschool groups from this disease. One case of infantile paralysis was reported from Emery county; one case of epidemic meningitis, one case of streptococcus meningitis, menin-gitis, one case of lethargic encephalitis, en-cephalitis, and one case of tularemia tular-emia were reported from other parts of the state. The case of tularemia resulted from the dressing dress-ing of infected rabbits. |