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Show FEWER DISEASES REPORTED BY HEALTH OFFICERS 1 j State health oficers and physicians physi-cians reported to the state depart-; depart-; ment of health a total of 121 cases ' of communicable diseases. Last week there was a total of 110 cases. The increase in the number num-ber of cases this week over last week is due mainly to an increase in-crease in the number of chicken-pox chicken-pox and whooping cough cases. For the entire country there have been more cases of ppliomye-litis ppliomye-litis reported this year than during dur-ing any previous epidemic, according ac-cording to a recent public health report. Utah has been fortunate by having only about one-half as many cases of poliomyelitis this year (111 cases) as for the same period of time last year (200 cases) . One case of epidemic meningitis menin-gitis has been reported this week from Utah county. Of the six cases of malaria re- ported, five contracted the infection infec-tion outside the Continental limits of the United States, and the sixth case was contracted in one of the southwestern states. The majority of the thirteen cases of tuberculosis reported this week had their onset during preceding pre-ceding weeks. Five of the cases were reported from Salt Lake City, four from Provo City, one from Ogden city, and one each from Summit and Davis counties, and one case from a neighboring state. Health oficers from Duchesne, Emery, Kane, Millard, Piute, Rich, San Juan and Uintah counties report re-port no cases of communicable diseases for the week. |
