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Show HEALTH REPORT Reports from local health officers of-ficers for the week ending October Oc-tober 24, show an increase of 100 cases of communicable diseases as comuared with the previous week. This increase is accounted for in the number of cases of cases of chickenpox: most of the cases occuring in Rich County and Salt Lake City and County. One; case of typhoid fever was reported from Salt Lake City, making a total of 27 cases which have been reported since the first ofof the year, 1941, for the entire en-tire State. The source of the infection in-fection is being investigated but has not yet been determined. According Ac-cording to records in the division of Epidemiology most of the cases , off typhoid fever , in Utah are the result of contact with carriers, darriers are individuals who have mad typhoid fever and continue to harbor the ejrganiisms in their gastro-intesinal 1 tracts. Some of these individuals give a history or having hadtyphoid fever more than 20 years ago. . j Ten asesof whooping-cough were reported for the Jt'ek as compared with 18 cases itr the previous week. i Other communicable enseases were as follows: influenzal 1, measles 6, German measles JL0, mumps 35, pneumonia 3, scarlet fever 8, septic sore throat 1, gonorrhea go-norrhea 7, syphilis 7, and gonorrhea gonor-rhea ophthalmia 1. |