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Show "fate Health Report "'ol'o On Increase Local health officers and physicians phy-sicians reported a total of 763 resident cases of notifiable diseases dis-eases to the State Department of Health for the week ending June 1, 1948. That number is an increase of almost one hundred hun-dred cases over the 674 reported last week. Notifiable diseases in. Sanpete county were all but nil last week with only two cases of chicken pox and four cases of measles reported. Six cases of infantile paralysis were reported from Salt Lake City during the week. Five o those cases are late reports, all of them- having had the onset of their illness during the fir three weeks of February 1948. The sixth case occurred in a white female ten year of age. from the City, with onset of the illness May 22, 1948. Polio Jumps 1 Including the six cases of poliomyelitis this week, there has been a total of thirteen reported re-ported since the first of the year as compared with four cases during the same period of time last year. This increase in cases over last year is in keeping with the national trend as shown in the Federal Security Agency report re-port of Communicable Disease Summary for the week ended June 5, 1948: "Total cases for the United States to date this year, 1,227, as compared with 956 the same period last year and a 5-year median of 811 cases." Six delayed diptheria reports were received during the week. The most recent case was dated May 28, 1948 and was reported from Park City. Four of the remaining five cases were reported re-ported from Provo and the other cases from Orem. This report brings the diphtheria total to 73 cases since the first of the year. |