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Show Only 11 Counties in Uah Are Free From Infanile Paralysis All but 11 of Utah's 29 counties were included in the infantile paralysis epidemic which struck the state last summer, according to an official tabulation by the State Department of Health. A total of 244 cases in which Utah residents were afflicted was noted in the reports from county physicians during the year. In addition, 13 other cases in which non-residents were vicitms of the dreaded disease, also were reported re-ported during the year. With the 1946 March of Dimes Campaign now under way, Senator Sen-ator Ira A. Huggins, of Ogden, Utah Chairman of the March of Dimes Committee, pointed out that the epidemic last year "grew" out of only one polio case reported by January 15th. "To date this year, five new cases have been registered in at the polio treatment center in Salt Lake City making it urgent that Utahns give more support to ' the March of Dimes than ever before," said Mr. Huggins. While 11 counties last year escaped es-caped having an "official" case of polio that is, a case diagnosed diag-nosed and reported as polio Senator Huggins points out that no section of the state was free i of the disease. While the epi-deic epi-deic was centered in the more populous areas, the more isolated isolat-ed regions also were the scenes i of mild epidemics. Couties which were free of "of-I "of-I fif.le.V" cases were Grand, Juab, Kane, Millard, Morgan, Piute, Rich, Daggett, Washington, Wayne, and Beaver. However, Frank S. Emery, U-tah's U-tah's Rerpresentative of the National Na-tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, warned that the "official "of-ficial listing" might not be accurate ac-curate on the 1945 total. He explained ex-plained that the after-effects of mild cases of the disease may not make themselves known for several weeks or months, until a depreciation of the use of muscles mus-cles is felt or becomes visible. "Many of these cases will require re-quire treatment," said Mr. Emery. Em-ery. He assured residents that, through support of the March of Dimes, Utah will continue to take care of its own in the center at. Salt Lake City, pointing out that specialists in polio treatment treat-ment predict that 85 perr cent of the patients treated at the center cen-ter will leave the hospital with no after-effects of he disease. |