Albany- 167 39 88 44 561 217 120 27 56 41 35 21 EAST NORTH CENTRAL 66 36 825 171 253 544 247 7,009 1,341 1,820 Akron- Birmingham-315 Chattanooga Knoxville Louisville-- Memphis----- Mobile-- Montgomery-- Nashville---- Austin-- Baton Rouge -1, 458 Corpus Christi 787 Dallas192 El Paso---423 Fort Worth--386 Houston-----240 Little Rock- New Orleans -- San Antonio----- 254 Tulsa MOUNTAIN Albuquerque-- 479 Denver----- 275 Phoenix- PACIFIC Pasadena--- Sacramento-- San Diego---(180) San Francisco- Seattle---- Spokane - Tacoma- Honolulu 79 74 56 373 40 44 40 50 127 114 29 30 103 61 526 305 365 269 WEST NORTH CENTRAL (42) (25) TUR March 13, 1953 Washington 25, D.C. Vol. 2, No. 9 Provisional Information on Selected Notifiable Diseases in the United States for Week Ended March 7, 1953 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REPORTS Influenza The following reports were received by the Influenza Information Center, N, I, H., and the National Office of Vital Statistics. Dr. E. H. Lennette, California State Department of Public Health, reports serologic diagnosis of 13 cases of influenza A and A-prime, having onsets between January 15 and February 9. New York State Department of Health Laboratories, reports the serologic diagnosis of influenza A-prime in 4 cases from Ray Brook, New York, 1 case from Westchester County, and 3 cases from Lake Placid having onsets in the middle of January. Dr. C. C. Croft, Ohio State Department of Health, reports the serologic diagnoses of influenza A-prime in 9 cases from Apple Creek (Wayne County) and 4 cases from Bowling Green (Wood County). Dr. S. B. Krumbiegel, Medical Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, reports the occurrence of influenza during February in six penal and correctional institutions located in as many States. Infections usually were mild and as high as one-fourth of the in Deaths From Influenza and Pneumonia for 58 Selected Cities, by Weeks mates were reported to have been ill. (199); East North Central, 95 (111); West North Central, 41 (41); Dr. J. A. Carswell, Alaska Department of Health, reports the South Atlantic, 69 (54); East South Central, 47 (42); West South occurrence of influenza in Sitka, Anchorage, Nome, and Hotzebue Central, 20 (19); Mountain, 6 (10); and Pacific, 21, (27). during the month of February. Dr. E. W. Seaforth, Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation, Psittacosis Wisconsin, reports that in an outbreak on the reservation affect- Dr. W. L. Halverson, Director, California Department of ing 106 individuals, the attack rate was highest among persons Public Health, reports 2 cases of psittacosis. The first case below the age of 17 years. Seven cases of secondary bacterial was in a 53-year-old white woman. She was exposed to a parakeet pneumonia with no fatalities were observed. 2 to 3 weeks prior to her illness. Complement fixation tests for Dr. Evelyn Rogers, District Health Officer, reports an the first sample were negative, but for samples taken 7 days outbreak of an influenza-like disease in Madison County, New later, were positive for psittacosis antigens in titers of 1:64 and York, late in February. In a school attended by 178 children, 1:128. The virus was isolated by mouse inoculation from liver 73 were absent. Sore throat, cough, and fever were predomi - and spleen of a parakeet to which the patient was exposed. The nate symptoms. second case was in a 60-year-old custom's officer who was exDr. H. M. Erickson, Oregon Health Officer, states that the posed for 5 hours to 1,427 confiscated contraband parakeets. reported incidence of influenza was lower in February than for These birds were being smuggled into the United States from the corresponding period of 1952, when influenza B was epidemic. Mexico. Two weeks after contact with the birds the officer Three of 6 paired specimens examined recently showed serologic developed anorexia, chills, fever, and malaise. He was treated incidence of influenza A-prime. with terramycin and the symptoms disappeared for 1 week. On The number of deaths from influenza and pneumonia reported reappearance of symptoms, he was treated with aureomycin. A by 58 cities was 495 for the week ended February 28 as compared chest X-ray showed frank infiltration in the right lung base. with 544 for the previous week. The numbers reported for these Blood specimens drawn on 2 different dates were reported positive cities by geographic division, with figures for the previous week for psittacosis in titer of 1:128. in parentheses, were: New England, 41 (41): Middle Atlantic, 155 Table 1. COMPARATIVE DATA FOR CASES OF SPECIFIED NOTIFIABLE DBEASES: UNITED STATES (Numbers after diseases are category numbers of the Sixth Revision of the International Lists, 1948) Anthrax -----062 11 Botulism -----049.1 Brucellosis (undulant fever) -----044 36 Diphtheria--- ---055 55 Encephalitis, acute infectious ---082 19 Hepatitis, infectious, end serum---- --092,N998.5 pt. 544 Malaria-- --110-117 5 Measles ----085 10,954 Meningococcal infections---------057 132 Poliomyelitis, acute ---080 84 Rabies in man----- ----094 Rocky Mountain spotted fever----104A 2 Scarlet fever and streptococcal sore throat----- --050,051 4,049 Smallpox---- --084 53 Trichiniasis- --128 4 Tularemia ---059 12 Typhoid fever----- ----040 17 Typhus fever, endemic. -101 4 Whooping cough --056 631 648 25 125 12) (2) 226,511 2,204 28, 413 1,324 12) 35,803 85 1, 790 1,309 4, 428 273 174,334 111, 135 1,049 797 1,041 972 2 7 7 -- NN 12) NN 1 12) 12) SOURCE AND NATURE OF DATA These provisional data are based on reports from State and Saturday. When the diseases which rarely occur (cholera, territorial health departments to the Public Health Service. dengue, plague, typhus fever-epidemic, and yellow fever) are They give the total number of cases of certain communicable reported, they will be noted under the table above. diseases reported during the week usually ended the preceding Symbols. -1 dash [-]: no cases reported; asterisk (*] : disease stated not notifiable; parentheses, [1] in total; 3 dashes [---] : data not available. : data not included Table 2. CASES OF SPECIFIED DISEASES WITH COMPARATIVE DATA: UNIT ED STATES, EACH DIVISION AND STATE FOR WEEK ENDED MARCH 7, 1953 (Numbers under diseases are category numbers of the Sixth Revision of the International Lists, 1948) 5 166 6,929 2 8 807 103 8 280 2 83 3, 753 5 372 1 62 1,614 57 585 11,215 32 148 99 3, 460 25 338 3,311 40 3,169 5,218 23 672 749 9 44 296 335 1, 454 6 653 1, 436 2 1, 465 1,283 47 1,106 718 7 158 27 16 106 105 9 239 76 1 87 39 7 2 56 174 14 453 295 5 2 24 5 14 22 3 2 1,244 317 173 177 459 118 175 64 162 246 156 1 7 3 10 1 56 57 1 2 1 53 10 12 81 115 MODDIS ATLANTICNew York------Sex Jersey--Pennsylvania EAST NORTH CENTRALonio----Indiana-----IllinoisMichigan-------Wisconsin------ VEST NORTH CENTRAL Xingebots-Iowa-------Missouri----North Dakota-South Dakota-Nebraska------Kansas------- SOUTH ATLANTICDe lavare----Maryland----District of ColumbiaVirginia---West Virginia--North Carolina-South Carolina--Georgia-----Florida-- EAST SOUTH CENTRALKentucky-----Tennessee-------Alabang------Mississippi----- WEST SOUTH CENTRAL- MOUNTAIN- 28 51 9 1 85 2 2 6 1 60 266: 364 1 5 106 1 1 2,076 514 307 1,219 36 2 4 1 1 49 39 8 10 2 2 27 1 2,578 326 34 38 2,180 6 22 (3) () 1-) |
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