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Show HEALTH NEWS Physicians and local health officers of-ficers reported a total of 354 resident re-sident cases of notifiable diseases to the state department of health for the week ending March 12. That number compares favorably favor-ably with the 464 cases for the previous week and 427 cases for the same week last year. Diphtheria still continues to march on. Five cases were reported re-ported from Provo during the week, bringing the total cases for the year to twenty-seven. During the same period of time last year, there were only two cases reported. re-ported. The continuation of the diphtheria diph-theria outbreak this year, even though at a reduced incidence, indicates the need for more extensive ex-tensive diphtheria immunizations throughout the state and particularly partic-ularly among infants, pre school and school children. The state department of health recommends that all children be immunized against diphtheria starting at six months of age. The following is a list of all reportable diseases for the week: chickenpox, 128; diphtheria, 5; influenza, 34; measles, 37; German Ger-man measles, 3; mumps, 70; pneumonia, 10; scarlet fever, 17; septic sore throat, 3; undulant fever, 2; whooping cough, 16; gonorrhea, 6; syphilis, 14; cancer, can-cer, 13; rheumatic fever, 2; dysentery dy-sentery (Shigella), 1; and ringworm ring-worm of the scalp, 1. O |