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Show Health News A total of 919 cases of communicable commu-nicable diseases was reported to the Utah State Board of Health for the week ending April 19, 1940, as compared with 973 last week and 568 for the corresponding correspond-ing week in 1939. There were 638 cases of measles meas-les reported this week, a slight increase over last week, and 498 cases more than were reported one year ago. Measles is assuming assum-ing epidemic proportions in Salt Lake City and county with a total of 437 cases. Box Elder county reported 25 cases, San Pete county 95, Tooele county 30, and Davis county 13. There were decreases in the total number of cases of chicken-pox, chicken-pox, German measles, pneumonia, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, and whooping cough. Of the twenty-nine counties in the state the following reported no diseases: Beaver, Cache, Daggett, Dag-gett, Duchesne, Iron, Kane, Rich, San Juan, Uintah, and Wasatch: A program of meetings for local lo-cal health officers of Weber I county will meet April 24 in the Weber county courthouse at 8:00 p. m. Problems pertaining to the conduct of health and sanitation of Weber county will be discussed. discuss-ed. Talks will be given by Dr. Edward M. Jeppson, district health officer, Dr. William M. McKay, acting state health commissioner, com-missioner, and Ward C. Warnock, district sanitarian. |