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Show HEALTH REPORT Judging from reports to the Utah State Board of Health from local health officers for the week ending June 27, the health of the citizens of the State is exception ally good. Only 315 cases of communicable com-municable diseases were reported which is the smallest number on record for the present year. Six cases of tularemia were reported: re-ported: one from Carbon County, one from Duchesne County, two from Rich County and two from Uintah County. Both of the cases reported from Rich County resulted re-sulted fatally. As reported by the attending physicians the various var-ious sources of infection were given as "dressing rabbits, shearing shear-ing sheep, and infected ticks." Todate, a total of 20 cases of tularemia tu-laremia have been reported from all sections of the State for 1941. During the corresponding period per-iod of 1940 a total of 30 cases of this disease was reported. One case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever was reported from "Juab County. Chickenpox leads the list of communicable diseas with a otal of 113 cases, whooping cough is second with a total of 70 cases, and German measles is third with a total of 39 cases. Other diseases reported are as follows, measles 17, mumps 26. pneumonia 6, scarlet fever 5, tuberculosis tub-erculosis 4, gonorrhea 11, cvph-ilis cvph-ilis 16, and septic sore throat 1. Richfield and Cedar City and the following counties reported "no diseases" for the week: Beaver Beav-er Daggett, Emery, Grand, San 1 Juan, Tooele, Wasatch, and V.'av-ne. V.'av-ne. For the week ending July 4tri the health officers from iiiteen counties of the State reported their counties to be free from communicable diseases. The balance bal-ance of the counties reportod a total of 174 cases the lowest number num-ber reported for any week so far this year. This number is a dually dual-ly 141 cases fewer than were reported re-ported for the previous week and 88 cases fewer than were reported one year ago. One case of diphtheria was reported re-ported from Salt Lake City, which brings the total to 32 cases of this disease which have been reported for 1941. The patient is an adult 32 years of age. One case of tularemia was reported re-ported from Mount Pleasant, San-peteCounty. San-peteCounty. The probable source of infection is given by the attending at-tending physician as "tick bite and handling rabbits." Salt Lake City reported one case 0'. amoebic dysentery. The probable source of the infection has not as yet been determined. Other diseases reported were as follows: chickenpox 68, measles meas-les 9, German measles 37, mumps 14, pneumonia 3, tularemia 1, whooping cough 28, gonorrtiea 6, syphilis 4, and influenza 2. Judging from the number of cases of communicable diseases reported the health of the citizens of Utah are exceptionally good. |