Naugatuck Daily News from Naugatuck, Connecticut • Page 12

NEWS THURSDAY, DEC, 1, lIMfl More Than 60,000 Join Blue Cross In Recent Enrollment than 60.000 persons joined Connecticut Blue Cross during the recent state-wide direct enrollment, the non-proflt hospital plan reported today. This response higher than returns for last individual membership offer and jumps total Blue Cross enrollment to a new high of around 990,000. Over 27,000 separate applications accepted, Robert Parnall. Blue general manager, with an average of moie than two persons covered on each application. Exact figures will not be known, he said, unll all upp'l- cutlons which were returned for correction are counted a.nd a final tabulation made.

Hospital service benefits will begin for the members on Jan. 1. During the two-week direct enrollment period, Blue Cross opened membership to persons under age 65 who were not eligible to join though 'payroll groups. Applications appeared In dally newspapers thoughout the state. There was no personal solicitation cr canvassing.

Parnall atrlbuted the sprcad response to "Increased pub- He acceptance if the voluntary non-profit plan as the best answer to the problem of financing hospital care." On the basis of past experience, he said, Blue Croas IB confident that dlroctly-onrollou members will maintain themselves Blue Cross rolls without risk lo the general operation of tho plan. Jobless Claims Hit Lowest Point In '49 the point In IB'10, the number of jobleHs claimants for unomploymnnt In CumieeUe.it dropped to for the woelc ended Nov. 20 fom 43,102 for the previous week. This was 78 per cont higher than the 22,341 who filed during the corresponding week a your ago. A large purl of the drop was due to the Thiuikv Ktvlng holldny.

for the week numbered 950 malciiiK tho tcLii! 48000 Jan. 1. Initial clulma for the week do- However, this new segment of niflmberHhlp will be cimsfuUy Hiudlnd, lie atldncl, rind direct enrollment will not be offered npnln until the experience pattern lias been studied over a period of clmort lo 4,808 from G.844 for Uic previouH week. All ofllccH showed decline number of clnlmn cxceiit Thompsonville where there was a rise of four per cent. Bridgeport led the state In the number of jobless with 7,000 followed by New Havi-n M31, Hnrtfocd 5,041, Watorbucy 3,821, Now Britain 3,110, Stamford 1,925, New London 1,541, 1,347, Danbury Mlddletovvn 1,315, Bristol 1,247, Anaonia 118 and Thompsonvllle 1,113.

The other six offices wore each undor 1,000. Luck of work IriyoffH were reported In the following InclUHtvliw, Woolcna 440 by one firm until 5, garment ucnrfu 100, 100, auto parts 100. ordnance 70, razors 60, fur fnlt 50 furnlturu 40 small office equipment 40, electrical eqtiipmcnt 35, building supplies 25, vacuum cUiancrH 25 anil 20. The following rohlroa were noted: Chains 100, nilvorwaro 40, clocks 20 and heat treating: 15. Whooping Cough Most Prevalent Disease In State Whooping cough cases declined slightly during the week just ended, but this disease remained the itjoat prevalent within the stare.

According to the tKimmary of rfi- imrlublo dlseii.Mes Issued each Monday by the Connecticut State Department of Health, cough cases dropped from to 110. With the exception of syphlllB cages which rose from 18 to 20, the commonest roportablo dlHoasna cither Mhowod 11 fewor number of CUHUH or remained unchanged from thoso of the weak earlier. Gonorrhea crises stayed at, 16 and Oor- mun measles cases at three thin past week, while for the fifth consecutive week, there were no ctuos of dlphthoria within the state. This was also the second week that Connecticut was without a lever case, During the week just ended, chlckenpox canon declined from 54 lo 50, mumps CBSOB frojm 48 to 24, broncho pneumonia COUCH from 28 to 23, and poliomyelitis leases from to 14; At the same tlipe, measles cases decreased slightly from 11 to 1.0, scarlet fever casps from 33 to 11, lobar pneumonia cases from eight to six, manlngococcal rnonln- gltlH ciutes Irom one to none and cases of ntroptococcal sore throat from four to none. 0 Service Station Fern and Clmntnut fcitn.

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