Show diute piute county has very fine health record vadis Rol robinson piute diute county P public bublic health nurse called attention t this week to a memorandum fr from 0 in A A jenkins M D i director division of of 0 the state department of health in which he cited piute diute county as one of five counties in the state which reported more dip theria thena and whooping cough immunizations than the number of live births ile he pointed out that during the diphtheria dip thena theria epidemic of 1947 and 1948 utah has had a total of 20 cases this is an average of 13 5 cases during that period the five counties beaver grand flute rich and san juan had only three cases of dip thena during the same period and all of those were in in one county the total number of births for 1945 1946 was 53 and the total immunizations in 1947 for diphtheria dip theria was with 64 for whooping cough physicians and public health officials know that epidemic outbreaks of these two communicable diseases are preventable it if immunizations are carried out continuously from year to year and it if as many immunizations are done each year among infants and preschool pre school age childr children erx a as s there are live births for the year |