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Show REPORT ON STATE ' HEALTH AND DISEASES GIVEN State health officers and physic-: physic-: ians reported to the State Department Depart-ment of Health a total of 314 cases of communicable diseases for the week ending January 3, 1947, as compared with 249 cases for the previous week. There was an increase in-crease in both chickenpox and in-: in-: fluenza cases for the past week, ; ' as compared with the previous : week. For the same week last year, 1,343 cases of comunicable j diseases were reported. An influenza influ-enza epidemic at that time ac-! ac-! counts for the large number of cases. There were no resident cases of ' poliomyelitis reported during the week, although one non-resident case was reported from Rexburg, Idaho. One case of malaria fever was reported during the week the infection in this case being contracted con-tracted outside the Continental limits of the United States. - During the past week, one case of tuberculosis was reported from Salt Lake City. In 1945, tuberculosis tuber-culosis was the cause of 66 deaths , in the State of Utah. Moreover. among communicable diseases, it ranks second to pneumonia as the leading cause of death. The importance im-portance of tuberculosis is still further pointed out by the fact that it causes more deaths per year in Utah than diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid fever, whooping cough, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, poliomyelitis, meningitis, tularemia tula-remia and undulant fever combined. com-bined. Although the number of cases and deaths from tuberculosis tuberculo-sis per year have decreased considerably con-siderably over a period of time, both can be still further reduced by various public health measures in effect at this time. |