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Show ports from the hospital, the patient pa-tient is responding satisfactorily to treatment. The disease totals for the week were as follows: chickenpox, 70; measles, 70; German measles, 14; mumps, 26; pneumonia, 3; Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 1; scarlet scar-let fever, 14; tularemia, 1; whooping whoop-ing cough, 93; gonorrhea, 8; sypn-illis, sypn-illis, 9, and epidemic meningitis, 2. Health News Local health officers reported to the State Department of Health a total of 314 cases of communicable commu-nicable diseases for the week ending July 9. This is 103 eases fewer than were reported for the previous week and is the lowest number of cases to be reported re-ported for any week during the year 1943. It is encouraging to note that no cases of diphtheria, influenza, small pox nor typhoid fever were reported. One case of lethargic encephalitis encephal-itis was reported from Spanish Fork; the patient is a boy, 13 years of age, and is being treated treat-ed in the Salt Lake General hospital. hos-pital. A case of this disease was also reported from Carbon county; coun-ty; the patient is a girl 8 years of age. Sevier county reported one case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever; the patient, a laborer, is 36 years of age. According to the attending physician, the patient was infected through the bite of a tick which he picked up in King's Meadow canyon, Sevier county. A case of tularemia was reported re-ported from Sanpete county. According to the attending physician, phy-sician, the patient was infected by an insect bite in the fields west of Spring City, Sanpete county. The patient is a male, 34 years of age. Ogden City reported one case of epidemic meningitis; the patient pa-tient is a housewife, 36 years of age. Salt Lake county also reported re-ported one case of this disease. The patient, a girl 8 years of age, is the 111th case of this disease to be reported since January 1, of this year. According to re- |