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Show State Health Report On January 24 letters were mailed to all physicians in the state announcing the establishment establish-ment of blood-plasma banks in the district offices of the State Department of Health. These are located in Ogden, Farmington, Provo, Richfield, Cedar City, and Price. Physicians in Salt Lake City and County may secure plasma plas-ma by calling the office of the State Health Commissioner. A substantial contribution by Mssrs. Ernest and Clarence Bamberger Bam-berger and their sister, Mrs. Dorothy Dor-othy B. Allen, augmented by Department De-partment of Health funds has made this additional service possible. pos-sible. The use of blood-plasma is one of the modern methods for the treatment of severe hemorrhage. No blood typing is necessary and hospitalization is not necessary for its administration. The service is free to all physicians physi-cians of the State for use in the treatment of their medically indigent in-digent patients. The service is available, of couse, to those patients pa-tients who can pay for the plasma plas-ma on a replacement basis. Further details of the service can be obtained by calling the District Health Officers or the State Health Commissioner. A total of 651 cases of communicable com-municable disease was reported to the Utah State Deparment of Health for the week ending January Jan-uary 23 this is an increase of 102 cases as compared with those reported for the previous week and an increase of 223 cases over those reported for the corresponding period one yeaaago. One case of infantile paralysis was reported from Vernal, Utah; this is the first to be reported in 1942. For the vear 1941. a total of 40 cases of infantile paralysis was reported from all sections of the State. During the year 1940, 62 cases of this disease were reported. re-ported. Mumps led the list of communicable com-municable diseases for the week, with a total of 202 cases as compared com-pared with 154 cases for the previous pre-vious week, and 13 cases for the corresponding week one yer ago. Chickenpox was second with a total of 154 cases this is 86 cases cas-es fewer than were reported for the previous week. Influenza was third, with a total of 105 cases being reported 102 of those being reported from Millard County. |