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Show STATE HEALTH REPORT GIVEN For the week ending June 9th, 1944, state health officers reported report-ed a total of 455 cases of communicable commun-icable diseases to the State Department De-partment of Health. In addition to these cases, all of which were residents, 41 cases of communicable communica-ble diseases were reported among non-residents of the state. The report shows a slight increase in-crease in the number of cases of chickenpox, measles, mumps, scarlet scar-let fever, and whooping cough over ov-er the number reported for the previous week. Salt Lake City reported one case of epidemic meningitis. The patient is a boy of two years this is the 15th case or this disease di-sease which has been reported since the first of the year. A total of three cases of tularemia tulare-mia was reported, one of these is a non-resident of the state. According Ac-cording to the attending physician of the non-resident case, the patient pa-tient is reported to have had the pulmonic type of the disease. This type of infection usually occurs among sheepshearers. One of the resident cases resulted fatally.The patient was infected through the bite of a tick. According to the attending physician of the second resident case, the source of the infection in-fection has not been determined. Utah county reported one case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the first to be reported in Utah this year. The patient is 17 years of age and was infected while employed em-ployed with the surveying gang in one of the canyons in Utah county. coun-ty. The public is warned that all citizens whose pleasure or occupations occupa-tions take them into the canyons should be immunized against the Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Immunization with vaccine prepared pre-pared at the U. S. Public Health Service Laboratories at Hamilton, Montana, affords protection against this disease for a period of one year. The vaccine is supplied sup-plied to the physician of the state without charge. According to reports re-ports reaching the State Department Depart-ment of Health there appears to be an unusually heavy crops of ticks in the canyons this year. |