SUMMARY OF CASES REPORTED MONTHLY BY STATES. The following summary of monthly State reports is published weekly and covers only those States from which reports are received during the current week: Cases of communicable diseases referred during May, 1921, to other State health departments by the Department of Health of the State of Minnesota. Discase and locality of notifi Referred to health authority of— cation. Why referred. Diphtheria.... Scarlet fever: Dorchester, Allamaker County, Iowa Cultures examined at Minnesota Rochester, Olmsted County Oelwein, Fayette County, Iowa.. Trachoma: St. Paul, Ramsey County. Sisseton, Roberta County, S. Dak... Tuberculosis: Deerwood Sanatorium, Chicago, Cook County, Ill. State Hospital, St. Peter, Osage, Mitchell County, Iowa... Scotland, Edgar County, Ill.. Dennison, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.j Dak. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. State Board of Health laboratory were positive. Patient died 24 hours after arrival from Oelwein, still in desquamative stage. Patient examined May 10; trachoma found. Left for Sisseton May 20. Left sanatorium for home. Four improved and six unimproved cases left sanatorium for their homes. Patient left hospital for his home in Billings. Five advanced cases, five moderately advanced, one stage of disease not given, left Mayo Clinic for their homes. Cases of communicable diseases referred during May, 1921, to other State health departments by the Department of Health of the State of Minnesota-Continued. A summary of the reports received of the occurrence of plague and the finding of plague-infected rodents in the United States during 1920 was published in Public Health Reports, Jan. 7, 1921, p. 15. CITY REPORTS FOR WEEK ENDED JUNE 11, 1921. CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS. The column headed "Median for previous years" gives the median number of cases reported during the corresponding weeks of the years 1915 to 1920, inclusive. In instances in which data for the full six years are incomplete, the median is that for the number of years for which information is available. See p. 1526; also Telegraphic weekly reports from States, p. 1514, and Monthly summaries by States, p. 1518. |