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Show ! STATE HEALTH REPORT GIVEN For the week ending July 20, state health officers report a total of 323 cases of communicable diseases dis-eases which is a slight decrease from the 340 cases reported for the previous week. A total of 11 cases of poliomyelitis poliomye-litis was reported for the week, which includes 10 cases reported earlier in the week. Four cases were reported from Salt Lake county; five from Salt Lake City and one each from Cache and Duchesne Du-chesne counties. According to attending at-tending physicians, the ages of these patients range from twenty months to fourteen years. Six of the patients are girls and five are boys. Since Jan. 1 of this year, a total of 24 cases has been reported report-ed as compared with seven for the corresponding period in 1944, and 17 for the corresponding period per-iod in 1943. Four new cases of undulant fever fev-er were reported for the week. Brigham City, Cache county, Logan Lo-gan city and Salt Lake county each reported one case of this disease. dis-ease. A grand total of 79 cases of this diease has been reported since the first of the year. Fifteen of these patients were non-residents. One case of tularemia was reported re-ported from Sanpete county, according ac-cording to the attending phycisian the source of the infection is unknown. un-known. Logan City reported one case of Paratyphoid "A" fever. The totals for the week were as follows: chickenpox, 40; poliomyelitis, polio-myelitis, 11; measles, 100; German Ger-man measles, 1; mumps, 46; pneumonia pneu-monia 1; scarlet fever, 11; tuberculosis tuber-culosis (nonresident) 2; tularemia, 1; paratyphoid "A" fever, 1; undulant un-dulant fever, 4; whooping cought, 37; gonorrhea (resident) 19; (non resident) 20; syphilis (resident) 13; syphilis (nonresident) 10; malaria ma-laria (nonresident) 2; and infectious infec-tious jaundice, 2. |