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Show DISEASE REPORT . ! IS GIVEN ( 'H)R THIS WEEK ' KotifiabU' disioastvj for the week omltns August 13, 194S reached a low poi'1' tov tno y;,r with only 1(H osisiw being reported to the (ato Department of Health by niiysu'ia"8 i!1,u1 local health offi-(vrs. offi-(vrs. I-,,st wv,,J. 124 oases were j forded and 97 for the same woek ' lust yr. ! piphtlioria eases dropped from sown last week to two this week. I to a report from the 5 ii. S. Public Health Service for I tiu week ending July 31, 1948, It Vtsh, with four diphtheria cases, was the only state out of eight ' jtoimtain states reporting- diph-N, diph-N, thoria during that week. v Poliwnyelttis, with, six cases S (1,35 week, shows a slight increase over last week when four cases wore reported. Ten cases haw boon reported during the first two weeks of August and 34 cases since the first of the year. ' Of tlie six poliomyelitis cases i this week, five were reported from salt Lake City and one from Uin-tali Uin-tali County. Measles d-ecreased from 57 cases iast week to 37 this week. It is beginning to look as if the meas- L lei epidemic is pretty well over with by this time. r-- One case each of tularemia was reported from Carbon, Duchesne, ' Emery, and Utah counties, mak-N mak-N ing a total of four for the week. According to reports received by l the State Department of Health from attending physicians, most of the tularemia cases in the State result from handling infected rabbits rab-bits and from deer fly bites. - |