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Show State Health Still Shows Big Improvement Judging from reports made by local health officers to the State Department of Health for the week ending July 10, the general health picture in the State contin-uees contin-uees to improve. A total of 382 cases of communicable com-municable diseases was reported as compared with 583 for the previous pre-vious week, n Daggett, Duchesne, Kane, Rich, and Sevier Couties reported "no diseases." Eight cases of tuberculosis were reported, 6 of these were of the pulmonary type, one was a tuberculous meningitis and one a tuberculous, enteritis. All eight cases were males, 6 of whom were over 40 years of age. With the great influx of industrial indus-trial workers of the low income group, it is not improbable that our tuberculosis rate will increase Emery County reported one case of tularemia. The patient is a farmr 49 years of age who received re-ceived his infection through the bite of an insect One case of typhoid fever was reported from Salt Lake County, the patient is a housewife, 48 years of age. Other diseases reported were as follows: chickepox 33. measles 168, German measles 12, mumps 92, pneumonia 5, scarlet fever 5, whooping cough 31, gonorrhea j 5, I syphilis 10, and chancroid 1. |