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Show Board of Health Report For the week ending February 16, local health officers reported a total of 586 cases of communi-' cable diseases, 38 of whom are listed as nonresidents, A total of 515 cases was reported report-ed for the previous week and 808 cases for the corresponding week in 1944. Of unusual interest in the re-reporting re-reporting of 60 cases of influenza from Davis County. No cases of diphtheria., poliom. yelitis, meningitis, nor typhoid fever were reported for the week. Thirty new cases of gonorrhea and 15 case of syphilis were re-ported, re-ported, 18 of the patients in this group was listed by the attending physicians as nonresidents. Army hospitals reported 8 cases of malaria fever, There was also 8 cases of rheumatic fever reported. report-ed. Three resident cases of pulmon-ar)y pulmon-ar)y tuberculosis were "reported. The totals for the week are as follows: chicken pox 170, influ-enza influ-enza 61, measles 82, German measles 15, mumps 95, pneumonia 16, scarlet fever 71, tuberculosis 3, undulant fever 1, whooping cough 10, gonorrhea (residents) IS, nonresident 12, maliara fever 8, rheumatic fever 8, acute enteritis en-teritis 1, and syphillis (resident) 9, (nonresident, 6. No communicable disease re-ports re-ports were received from Cedar City nor from the following coun. ties: Eeaver, Daggett, Iron. Kane I Rich, San Jaun, and Sevier. |