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Show No cases of diphtheria, poliomyelitis, polio-myelitis, smallpox nor typhoid fever were reported. One case of malaria fever and 7 cases of tuberculosis were reported. re-ported. The totals for the week were as follows: chickenpox, 66; influenza, in-fluenza, 15; measles, 28; German measles, 34; mumps, 107; pneumonia, pneu-monia, 12; scarlet fever, 125; tuberculosis, tu-berculosis, 7; whooping cough 32; gonorrhea, 4; syphilis, 13; rheumatic fever, 12, and malaria fever, 1. HEALTH NEWS Utah health officers reported a total of 442 cases of communicable communi-cable diseases for the week ending end-ing March 31 as compared with 686 for the previous week and 894 for the corresponding week one year ago. One hundred and twenty-five cases of scarlet fever were reported re-ported as compared with 149 for the previous week and 49 for the corresponding period one year ago. There was also a decline in the number of cases of mumps there being 107 cases as compared compar-ed with 135 for the previous week. Salt Lake county reported 10 cases of rheumatic fever and Cache county and Ogden City each reported one case of this disease. |