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Show HEALTH REPORT j INDICATES DISEASE INCREASE For the week ending Jan. 12, a total of 590 cases of communicable communi-cable diseases was reported to the Utah State Department of Health as compared with 467 for the previous pre-vious week. Chickenpox is still at the top of the list, with a total of 265 cases. The number of cases of measles shows a slight increase and the number of cases of mumps increased in-creased from 96 for the previous week to 129. It is encouraging to note that no cases of diphtheria, poliomyelitis, poliomye-litis, smallpox nor typhoid fever were reported. |