Show health director i releases r data dam on diphtheria Dip theria is a more common ause of illness in utah among c iid en particularly than many people believe according to dr 1 iain 11 mckay director of of the i ision of communicable ducase conti control 01 utah state board of heal ul th this flits I 1 is an important observe accard wr to dr J L jones 11 t c on 1 I eite 17 c health commissioner sines since r v deop people to bel bolce c e that e is 13 ittle I 1 talc danger from this disease aisea c bec cne n io i o e r F public pubic r casu it is true he says tha toe to e s 1 ittle need for the normal individual to contract this once dreaded communicable disease if it ha and his family have taken proper preventative measures against I 1 it the unfortunate circumstances circumstance in his connection however a an rc that it requires constant vigilance lanc to keep the disease in control cont iol anc many people not understanding cc this thoroughly are inclined tc permit their children to go from season to season without the pro lection provided by proper immunization niza tion in 1936 there were in utah 33 cases of dip therla five of which were fatal most of these fatal ties were among older children while positive records are arc no available there is reason to belki bellan that mily many of these particular parti cula 1 in the older age groups had n v or er received immunizing a eions the fact that inoculation esval is valuable even though in rate raie inshan ces acs it may not provide compi compto te protection against contracting the disease is s shown ho wn by utahn experience with diphtheria dip theria in the 1937 epidemic in carbon and earr counties of cases and not rne rn death during the year end ending n g pc DC cember 31 1937 there were 05 cases of diphtheria dip theria therla reported to the jh t tte t te boivid of health with onan i fatalities theme jhc thc e fatale w 9 N art a nc alv v a aon inq older oder people again fliam cpr I 1 is reason to believe th tb f rt ft r ff f tto tt oto aho vho ho died had pot anti diphtheria inoch lains laons the rather remarkable record rr dr T mckay ty says of only six deaths fi aiom om 3 cases is no doubt due to the fact that many of those these who contracted the disease under favorable conditions 0 of f exposure had received earlier I 1 in n their lives one inoculation against the disease this one inoculation although not I 1 enough in many instances to provide them with complete immunization did produce resistance which enabled them in most instances to overcome the disease without vit hout serious results the ideal of course is to lia have e every child receive two or mo more loses doses of early in life and then at a later date if the schick test teat indicates that the child is still till susceptible to have the immunization repeated |