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Show Utah's Polio Rale Low This Year Compared To Other Mountain States There was a total of 05 resident resi-dent cases of notifiable diseases reported to the State Department Depart-ment of Health for the week ending October 1. This compares favorably with the 105 cases last week and 88 cases for the corre-, corre-, sponding week last year. Xo not-icable not-icable diseases were reported in Sanpete County. So far this year, the peak poliomyelitis pol-iomyelitis week occured on September Sep-tember -17 when 11 cases were reported. Nine cases were reported re-ported for the week ending September Sep-tember 24 and six cases this week. During the four previous poliomyelitis epidemic vears (19-39, (19-39, 1943, 1945, and 1946), the peak week has occurred between August 31 and September 29. If the outbreak this year follows the trend of the epidemic years so far as the peak week is concerned, con-cerned, we should now be on a downward course. The decrease during the last two weeks, we hope, is indicative of a receding trend in poliomyelitis this year. This week Summit County reported re-ported its first poliomyelitis case. That now makes a total of 11 counties of the 29 in th State that have reported poliomyelitis cases this year. Utah's Total Compared From March 20 to September 18, 1948, according to a Public Health report, Utah had a total to-tal of 47 poliomyelitis cases; Arizona. 91; New Mexico, 54: Colorado, Col-orado, 74; Wyoming, 65; Idaho, 63: Montana, 33; and Nevada, 2. It is thus seen that we have fared pretty well on a comparative compara-tive basis with the other Mountain Mount-ain States. The following is a list of all diseases (resident and nonresident) nonresi-dent) for the week: chickenpox, 22; diphtheria, 2; infantile paralysis, paral-ysis, 6; measles, 18; German i measles, 1; mumps, 4; scarlet fever, 1; tuberculosis (other), 1; tularemia, 1; undulant fever. 2; whooping cough, 13; gonorrhea (residents, 15; (nonresident), 1; syphilis (resident). 2, (nonresident), (nonresi-dent), 1; rheumatic fever, 1; dysentery (Salmonella), 2; dysentery dy-sentery (Shigella), 1; and chancroid, chan-croid, 1. |