The 7,275 patients under care, except Dayton's 1,405, which are not listed by causes, were grouped as follows, according to the nature of CIRCUMSTANCES CAUSE MINOR CHANGE IN PLAN FOR MUNITIONS SURVEY Original plans for the munition industrial survey, to be carried out Public Health Journal for December. In the meantime preliminary work has been carried on in establishments in Columbus and vicinity. The division of industrial hy by the division of industrial hygiene is being assisted in the muni giene of the State Department of Health as a war measure this year, have been slightly modified as a result of conditions in the plant in which the initial work was to be done, with the co-operation of the owners, as outlined in the Ohio tions survey by Dr. E. R. Hayhurst, acting as consultant to the division. Dr. Hayhurst was formerly director of this division and was in charge of the general industrial hygiene survey of the state made in 1915. DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS BY DIVISIONS DIVISION OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES Report for January, 1918 Prevalence. As shown by Table I. following, the January total of 8,811 cases of notifiable diseases was lower than the total for January during the two preceding years, 9,439 and 11,071 cases, giving for the month a case rate, per 1,000 population, of 1.7 as compared with 1.8 and 2.5 for January 1917 and 1916. The cities reported 4,937 cases, 56 per cent of the state total. In order of greatest reported prevalence for the month the diseases list as follows: (1) smallpox 1,939, (2) chickenpox 1,005, (3) measles 997, (4) scarlet fever 861, (5) mumps 834, (6) whooping cough 769, (7) diphtheria 556, (8) tuberculosis 496, (9) pneumonia 462, (10) German measles 378, (11) ophthalmia neonatorum 131 and (12) typhoid fever 107 cases. For no other one notifiable disease was a total of 100 cases or more recorded for the month. Three cities, Ironton, Marion and Wooster failed to submit any reports by date of February 15. Reports for January were received from 94 per cent of all health districts by February 15. Delinquent reports are requested. Smallpox. Table III. following shows the county distribution of the 1,939 cases of smallpox reported for January, together with county totals for the three preceding months of the present smallpox epidemic. There are nine counties which have not reported any cases for the past four months. Health officers of these counties are urged to encourage vaccination and re-vaccination in order to keep their districts free from the disease. Meningitis, Cerebrospinal. The total of 38 cases, four times higher than totals for the past two years, occurred as follows: Ashtabula Co., Ashtabula 1, Jefferson 1; Butler Co., Middletown 1; Columbiana Co., Leetonia 1; Cuyahoga Co., Cleveland 6; Franklin Co., Columbus 3; Hamilton Co., Cincinnati 3; Hancock Co., Van Buren 1; Jefferson Co., Steubenville 1, Mingo Junction 1; Lucas Co., Toledo 1; Mahoning Co., Youngstown 2, Struthers 1; Medina Co., Wadsworth 1; Montgomery Co., Dayton 3; Noble Co., Caldwell 1; Ross Co., Chillicothe 1, Camp Sherman 5; Scioto Co., New Boston 1; Seneca Co., Venice Tp. 1, and Summit Co., Akron 2; total 38 cases. Poliomyelitis. The 5 cases of poliomyelitis were reported as follows: Ashland Co., Ashland 1; Franklin Co., Columbus 1; Hamilton Co., Cincinnati 1; Logan Co., Bellefontaine 1, and Warren Co., Wayne Tp., 1. TABLE I. REPORTED CASES OF NOTIFIABLE DISEASES, OHIO, JANUARY, 1916-1918. With Distribution for Cities and for Villages and Townships, January, 1918, and Case Rates Per 1000 Population, January, 1916-1918: Field. 23 .014 .010 .004 .094 .099 .020.031 .146.126.185 23.007 .005 | .004 *Total figures include cases reported by Camp Sherman and Wright Aviation 75 51 51 496 517 547 107 162 212 .106 .041 769 654 957 40 25 TABLE II. REPORTED CASES OF TEN NOTIFIABLE DISEASES WITH TOTAL CASE RATES PER 1,000 POPULATION, OHIO CITIES, JANUARY, 1918. TABLE II. REPORTED CASES OF TEN NOTIFIABLE DISEASES WITH TOTAL CASE RATES PER 1,000 POPULATION, OHIO CITIES, JANUARY, 1918- Concluded. * Reports from Ironton, Marion and Wooster were delinquent and from Alliance, Coshocton, Galion. Troy and Youngstown were incomplete to date of February 15th. Bowling Green, Jackson and Kenton reported no cases of notifiable diseases during January. |