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Show 'STATE HEALTH REPORT GIVEN I Physicians and state health officers offi-cers reported a total of 156 resident resi-dent cases of communicable diseases dis-eases to the State Dept. of Health for the week ending July 11, 1947, j as compared with 133 cases for the I previous week and 137 cases for the corresponding week last year. I One acute anterior poliomyelitis case was reported in a five-year-old 1 child from Salt Lake City. This ! makes a total of five cases report-! report-! ed since the first of the year and this is the first case reported since 1 March 7, 1947. All of the previ-J previ-J ous cases, except one, had the on-I on-I set of their illness in 1946 and as ' a result, were a carry-over from the previous year. I One case of typhoid fever was reported from Utah County, the i patient being an adult male. This is the first case of typhoid fever reported in the state of Utah since Nov. 8, 1946. Seven cases of rheumatic fever were reported during the week three from Ogden, two from Box Elder county, and one each from Davis and Salt Lake counties. |