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Show STATE HEALTH REPORT A total of 205 cases of communicable com-municable diseases was reported by local health officers to the State Department of Health for the week ending October 20, this includes nonresident cases and is an increase of 81 cases .over the number of resident and nonresident nonresi-dent cases reported for the previous pre-vious week. The principal increase is noted not-ed in the number of cases of chick enpox, which jumped from 29 cases last week to 91 cases for this week. Most of these cases were reported frim Salt Lake City and County. ' Only 10 cases of scarlet fever were reported in the State and the number of cases of measles was also small. For the fifth consecutive week no cases of infantile paralsis were reported. Salt Lake City reported one case of epidemic memingtis. The patient is a young women, 16 years of age. Twenty. four cases of this disease and 6 deaths for the corresponding period in 1943. Of the 44 cases of venereal di-sease di-sease reported for the week, 15 are listed as nonresidents. Four cases of pulmonary tuber-culisis tuber-culisis were reported, 3 of whom wer nonresidents. The total resident and nonresi-dent nonresi-dent cases for the week was as fillows: chickenpox 91, influenza 2, measles 10, German measles 2, epidemic meningitis 1, mumps 25, pneumonia 2, scarlet fever 10, tuberculosis 4, whooping cough 7, gonorrhea 20, syphilis 24, malaria ma-laria fever , and dysentery 2 a |