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Show HEALTH REPORT FOR ENTIRE STATE SUBMITTED Resident communicable disease cases and other notifiable diseases reported to the State Department of Health by physicians and health officers for the week ending end-ing October 3, amount to 88 cases, which is only a slight increase over the 84 cases reported for the previous week. For the same week last year, 105 cases were reported. For the last several weeks, the state has been particularly fortunate for-tunate in having a minimum number of diseases reportea. Ordinarily Or-dinarily communicable diseases are at a minimum during the summer months of the year, except for years of unusual incidence of certain cer-tain diseases, such as the poliomyelitis polio-myelitis epidemics of recent years. During the last three poliomyelitis epidemics in Utah (1943, 1945, 1946), by far the greatest number of cases have been reported during the months of August and September, Sep-tember, with the peak coming about the 15th of September. One case of poliomyelitis, a male child four years of age, was reported re-ported from Carbon county this week. This is the third case of poliomyelitis reported from Carbon Car-bon county since the first of the year, which amounts to one-third of the total number of cases in the state since January 1, 1947. It is hoped and anticipated that Utah will escape a poliomyelitis epidemic this year, particularly in view of the fact that there have only been nine cases reported so far, and that we are pretty well beyond the peak period of former epidemics (September 15). |
