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Show Sanpete County Is Center Of Influenza Epidemic After setting an unblemished record for nearly a month, San- I pete county this xveek reappeared ; in the state board of health's ; communicable disease report ; with 30 cases of influenza and ; one case of pneumonia. Physicians and local health officers throughout the state reported re-ported 232 resident cases of ; notifiable diseases to the de- ; partment for the week ending October 29, 1948. For the previ- : ous week, 199 cases were reported re-ported and 149 for the corres- ' ponding week last year. ! A communicable disease re- ; port from the U. S. Public Health ; Service for the week ending Oc- ; tober 23, 1948, on poliomyelitis ; states that: "Although defin- itely on the wane, the xveekly decrca.se in th reported number of cases Is apparently less rapid than usual. A total of ,t)T.i cu.ses was reported currently a . compared wild 1,122 for the pie-ceding pie-ceding week and lor the next preceding weeks as follows 1,2078; 1,52'J; l,o07 and 1,810, th( last figure being for the week ended September 18, the peal: week of reported cases this year The total to date Is 22,5'Jl, as compared with 21,C(J2 for the corresponding period of 1010." Polio Outbreak Delayed During previous poliomyelitis outbreaks in Utah, peak wevks. have occurred once in August and three times in September So, by comparison with th previous years here and with the United States peak poliomyelitis polio-myelitis week this year, the maximum extent of the outbreak has been considerably delayer.' in Utah this year. In fact, 31 of the 105 cases reported .since the first of the year have oc curred during October. Final poliomyelitis mortality reports are not yet complete but based on provisional figures (five deaths) the case fatality rate is 5.5 this year as com pared with a rate of 10.5 fo; the years 1919 to 1946, inclusiv- The following is a list of all diseases (resident and nonresident) non-resident) for the week: chicken pox, 46; diphtheria, 7; infantile paralysis (resident), 15, (nonresident), (non-resident), 1; influenza, 31; meas les, 73; German measles, 2; mumps, 16; pneumonia, 6; scarlet scar-let fever, 1; septic sore throat 2; tuberculosis (resident), 8, (nonresident), 1; tularemia, 2 whooping cough, 3; gonorrhea 4; syphilis (resident), 10, (non- " "'":,'"T 3; ringworm of the scalp, l; cancer (resident), :j nonresident), 1; and meningitis meningi-tis I rion -epidemic), 2. |
