Show fL L. L Communicable Diseases i i 1 January Record Drop s 5 perce percent t drop in o m nica- nica t diseases in Salt Lake City last nth nth oth In compa comparison Ison with Janu- Janu eor of 1940 was r reported Thursday IL pr r. r T T. J. J Howell Howells city health l led c th the list with v r ases cases followed by 3 31 of whoop- whoop cough bough 24 of German Gennan measles mumps 11 measles 10 scarlet er Cf and four of diphtheria At same ame time last year a R minor demic emic of whooping cough and was reported Deaths for for forthe the month totaled i 10 Jess Jess' than th the r reported port d for the same month in iii 1940 with lJ heart art disease 58 pneumonia 15 and cancer 12 leading the list nine Eighty-nine victims were males compared to 62 female deaths Girl babies outnumbered males to during the month births totaling in contrast to January 1940 when males outnumbered fe females females fe fe- males to for a total of |