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Show Health News A total of 401 cases of communicable commu-nicable diseases was reported by local health officers to the Utah State Board of Health for the week ending November 20. This is 56 cases fewer than were reported re-ported for the previous week and 7 cases fewer than were reported for the corresponding week in 1941. One-hundred and eighty-eight cases of . measles ' were reported as compared with 2G4 cases for the previous week. One case of undulant fever was reported from Price. The patient pa-tient is a male, 38 vears of age. Six cases of tuberculosis were reported by local health officers, which makes a total for the year of 106 cases of this disease. This is the largest number of cases of this disease reported in any one week during the past several sev-eral months. j Eleven cases of pneumonia were reported, which is an increase in-crease of 3 cases 'over those reported re-ported for the previous week. Because the incidence of pneumonia pneu-monia is usually highest during the winter months, people are urged to be very careful about exposing themselves to colds and Influenza. It is always a good plan in cases of either of these infections to go to bed and call your family physician., Other diseases reported were as follows: chickenpox. 80; German Ger-man measles. 7;; mumps, 51; pneumonia, 11; scarlet fever, 19; whooping cough, t 18; gonorrhea, 7; syphilis, 11, ana lethagic encephalitis, ence-phalitis, 1. No communicable disease reports re-ports were received from Cedar City nor the following counties: Daggett, Garfield,, and Morgan. |