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Show Health Report Communicable diseases reported report-ed to the State Department of Health from local health officers for the week ending August 2S, include three cases of poliomyelitis poliomye-litis (infantile paralsis)) Salt Lake City, Tooele, and San Pete Counties each reported one case. The patient in San Pete County is a girl, two years of age, and the other two are boys, both 11 years of age. The diagnosis was made in one instance only after the appearance appear-ance of paralysis in one leg. Diagnosis Diag-nosis of the other two cases was made during the acute attack of the disease. One of these is now reported as fully recovered with no residual paralysis. The other is making satisfactory progress under un-der the "Kenny Method" of treatment treat-ment at the County Hospital. While only six cases of poliomyelitis poliomy-elitis have been reported to-date, in 1942, parents and physicians must keep in mind that we are now at the height of the season for this disease. Since the beginning symptoms of the disease are identical with those of a cold, sore throat, or influenza, in-fluenza, it is important that such patients be put o bed and that the family physician be called early. It has been difinitely established establish-ed that the virus which causes poliomyetis is excreted in the body discharges and can be transmitt-to transmitt-to suscptibles individuals by the common house fly. In view of these facts, broken screening of doors and windows and a continuous contin-uous "swat the fly" campaign in the house, takes an added importance. impor-tance. Three cases of tularemia were reported by local health officers. Two of these were caused by insect in-sect bites and the third is reported report-ed by the attending physician to have followed the "bite of a cat," Presumably, the eat had been feeding on infected rodents. Two caes of typhoid fever were reported from the Indian Reservation Reser-vation at Fort Duchesne. Uintah County. The total number of cases of communicable diseases reported by local health officers for the week ending August 28 is 131 as compared with 134 for the previous week. The disease -pport-ed are as follows: chickenpox 11. infantile paralsis 3. German measles meas-les 4. measles 21. mumps 21. pneumonia pneu-monia -l.s ccarlet fever 2. tuberculosis tuber-culosis 1. tphoid fever 2. whooping cough2G, gonorrhea 15, syphilis 10. rheumatic fever 2. epidemic meningitis 1, and septic sore throat 2. |