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Show Board Cites Polio Decrease In Weekly Utah Health Report a Health officers from Duchesne, Emery, Kne, Millard, Piute, Rich, San Juan and Uintah Counties report no cases of communicable diseases for the week. The following is a list of all communicable diseases reported during the week; chickenpox, 25; poliomyelitis, 10; influenza, 1; measles, 2; measles (German;., 1; epidemic meningitis, 1; mumps 21; pneumonia, 3; scarlet fever, 2; pulmonary tuberculosis, 13; paratyphoid, para-typhoid, 11; whooping cough, 14; gonorrhea (resident), 15; syphilis (resident), 3; (nonresident., 8; malaria, 6, and chancroid, 1. For the week ending Sept. 27, 1940, local health officers and physicians reported to the State Department of Health a total of 121 cases of coirmiunicable diseases. di-seases. Last week there was a total of 110 cases. The increase in the number of cases this week over last week is due mainly to an increase in the number of chickenpox and whooping cough cases. For the entire country there have been more cases of poliomyelitis polio-myelitis reported this year than during any previous epidemic, according to a recent Public Health report . (Sept. 6, 1946). Utah has been fortunate by having hav-ing only about one-half as many cases of poliomyelitis this year (111 cases) . as for the same perid of time last year (200 ' cases). Of the ten poliomyelitis cases ' reported this week three had their onset (date illness first be-v be-v gan) during preceding weeks. The ten cases this week represent repre-sent an appreciable drop in poliomyelitis polio-myelitis when compared with the 24 cases reported last week. It is impossible to predict how many more cases of poliomyelitis we will have but we hope the downward trend seen this week will continue for the remainder of the year. Of the ten cases this week one each was reported from Cache, Carbon, Juab, Salt Lake and Summit Counties, and Provo and Ogden cities, and three cases from Salt Lake City. All ten cases occurred among patients ranging from 4 to 18 years of age. One icase of epidemic meningitis menin-gitis has .been reported this week from Utah County. Of the six cases of malaria reported, five contracted the infection in-fection outside the continental limits of the United States, and . the sixth case was contracted in one of the southwestern states. The majority of the thirteen cases of tuberculosis reported this week had their onset during preceding weeks. Five of the cases were reported from Salt Lake City, four from Provo City, one from Ogden City, and one each from Summit and Davis Counties, and one case from a neighboring state. A report of communicable diseases di-seases for the week has not been received from the health officers of Daggett, Iron, and Wayne counties, and Cedar and Richfield Rich-field cities. |
