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Show Polionyelitus Cases Show Seasonal Rise In Utah From the first of January to the present time, 113 cases of poliomyelitis have been reported to the State Department of Health by attending physicians, it was announced this week. Eight of the 113 cases occurred this week four from Salt Lake city, three from Ogden, and one from North Ogden. The 113 cases so far this year exceeds the 1939 poliomyelitis outbreak of 105 cases, but is considerably below the peak poliomyelitis year of 1943 when we had 399 cases. In 1945, there were 242 cases and 138 in the 1946 epidemic. , During the poliomyelitis outbreaks out-breaks of 1939, 1943, 1945, and 1946, the peak week for reported cases occurred on the following dates respectively: September 29 (13 cases); September 3 (73 cases); August 31 (32 cases); and September 20 (22 cases). For those same years, the greatest great-est number of cases by months have occurred once in August and October and twice in September. Sep-tember. If the poliomyelitis outbreak this year follows the trend of previous years, we could expect cases to decrease quite rapidly from now on. In fact, the eight cases this week represent almost a 100 drop under the 15 cases reported last week. For the week ending November Novem-ber 5, 1948, 250 resident notifiable notifi-able disease cases were reported to the State Department of Health. Last week, there was a total of 232 resident cases and 127 for the corresponding week last year. Chickenpox, measles, mumps and whooping cough show increases in the number of cases this week as compared with last week and account largely for the jump from 232 cases last week to 250 this week. The following is a list of all diseases (resident and non-resident) for the week: chickenpox 80; diphtheria, 1; infantile paralysis, par-alysis, 8; influenza, 3; measles, 91; German measles, 1; mumps 21; pneumonia, 4; scarlet fever 3; tuberculosis (resident), 4, (nonresident), 1; tularemia, 1; whooping cough, 17; gonorrhea (resident), 5, (nonresident), 1; syphilis, 8; cancer, 2; and meningitis menin-gitis (non-epidemic), 1. |