Table 1. COMPARATIVE DATA FOR CASES OF SPECIFIED NOTIFIABLE DISEASES: UNITED STATES (Numbers after diseases are category numbers of the Sixth Revision of the International Lists, 1948) Not computed. 3Deductions: Alabama and Vermont, week ended July 25, i case cach; North Carolina, week ended July 11, 1 case. Addition: South Carolina, week ended July 18, l case. *Addition: Connecticut, week ended July 25, 2 cases. Deduction: Kentucky, week ended July 25, 1 case. NOTE. - Psittacosis: Minnesota and Iowa reported l case each. SOURCE AND NATURE OF DATA These provisional data are based on reports from State and territorial health departments to the Public Health Service. They give the total number of cases of certain communicable diseases reported during the week usually ended the preceding Saturday. When the diseases which rarely occur (cholera, dengue, plague, typhus fever-epidemic, and yellow fever) are reported, they will be noted under the table above. : data not included Symbols.-1 dash [-]: no cases reported; asterisk [] : disease stated not notiflable; parentheses, in total; 3 dashes [---] : data not available. Table 2. CASES OF SPECIFIED DISEASES WITH COMPARATIVE DATA: UNITED STATES, EACH DIVISION AND STATE FOR WEEK ENDED AUGUST 1, 1953 (Numbers under diseases are category numbers of the Sixth Revision of the International Lists, 1948) Table 2. CASES OF SPECIFIED DISEASES WITH COMPARATIVE DATA: UNITED STATES, EACH DIVISION AND STATE FOR WEEK ENDED AUGUST 1, 1953-Continued |