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Show deluding the one case this week, 3 eleven more cases than for the same period last year. Locations that have not had i epidemics during the last several years are probably more apt to have an outbreak this year than those (towns and cities) which have participated in previous epidemics. PHYSICIANS REPORT ON HEALTH RECORD Physicians and state health officers of-ficers have reported a total of 238 resident cases of notifiable diseases dis-eases to the State Department of Health for the week ending July 16, 1948. Last week, 234 cases were reported and 118 for the same week last year. This is the time of the year that diptheria cases are o-dinarily at a low ebb or are nonexistent. Contrary to that usual expectancy, five cases of diphtheria were reported re-ported in the state. These cases range from five to forty-six years of age. Three cases occured in Salt Lake county and one each in Utah and Summit counties. The continuation contin-uation of diphtheria cases, in the state indicates the need for more extensive and continuous diphtheria diph-theria immunizations. This is the time of the year that poliomyelitis usually begins in earnest during epidemic years. Then it builds up to a peak in August, September, or October. No doubt there is considerable speculation at this time as to the probability of a poliomyelitis epidemic epi-demic in the state this year. We have no way of predicting what might happen as poliomyelitis is one of the most unpredictable of all communicable diseases. Since the first of the year, we have had a total of sixteen cases of poliomyelitis in the state, in- |