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Show STATE HEALTH REPORT GIVEN . Physicians and state health officers of-ficers reported a total of 84 resident resi-dent cases of notifiable diseases to the state department of health for the week ending September 26, as compared with 68 cases for the previous week and 116 cases for the corresponding week last year. Four diphtheria cases were reported re-ported from Salt Lake City this past week. Two of the .cases are six-year-old children and the other oth-er two are adults. Three of the four cases come from the same ' household and the fourth from another an-other section of the city. These are the first cases of diphtheria reported since the week ending September 12. So far this year, there have been 26 diphtheria diph-theria cases reported as compared with 8 cases for the same period of time last year. |