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Show RECORD LOW HIT IN NUMBER OF DISEASE CASES Good health rode Utah's storms last week. Only 70 cases of communicable diseases, believed to be the lowest number in the history of the state, were reported to the state board of health, it was noted in the weekly health summary issued today from the office of Dr. William Wil-liam M. McKay, acting state health commissioner. There were 119 cases reported in the previous week and 135 in the corresponding correspond-ing week last year. Nineteen of the state's 2 9 counties coun-ties reported no communicable diseases di-seases last week. No reports were received from Logan or Daggett counties, so the 70 cases on the health department's books were distributed among only eight counties. There were 12 cases of chicken-pox, chicken-pox, two infantile paralysis, two influenza, one mumps, nine pneumonia, pneu-monia, one measles, one scarlet fever, three tuberculosis, two typhoid ty-phoid fever, nine whooping cough, nine gonorrhea, seventeen syphil-lis, syphil-lis, one German measles, and one pneumococcic meningitis. |