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Show Health News Local health officers' reports sent to the Utah State Board of Health show a total of 452 cases of communicable diseases for the week ending March 14. This is a slight reduction from the number num-ber of cases reported during the previous week and approximately approximate-ly 200 cases fewer than were reported re-ported for the same week in 1940- German measles leads the list of communicable diseases with a total of 109 cases, 35 of these were reported from Moab, Grand county. One case of undulant fever was reported from Ogden City. The attending physician reports that his patient has been drinking raw milk. Eight cases of tuberculosis were reported, 6 of the patients were under 16 years of age. Four of these youngsters were in families fa-milies from which adult cases of tuberculosis had been previously pre-viously reported. The venereal diseases gonorrhea gon-orrhea and syphilis show an increase over the previous week. Other diseases reported were as follows: chickenpox 92, influenza in-fluenza 22, measles 32, pneumonia pneu-monia 12, mumps 30, scarlet fever fev-er 16, whooping cough 92, other tuberculosis 1, gonorrhea 10, and syphilis 27. Eleven of the 29 counties in the state reports "no diseases". o |