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Show the Utah state department of health by local health officers and physicians. The total reported report-ed for the previous week was 845. The decrease shown by the report is due almost entirely to the falling off of the total number num-ber of cases of measles throughout through-out the state 389 cases of measles mea-sles were reported for the week as compared with 465 for the previous week. The present epidemic epi-demic of measles appears to be nation wide as indicated by the report of the U. S. Public Health service for the week ending April 13, which shows a total of 301,196 cases during the first 15 weeks of 1946 as compared with 40,329 cases reported for the same period per-iod in 1945. Two cases of diphtheria were reported from Wellsville, Cache county. A report from the state laboratory indicates that the organisms or-ganisms cultured from the patients pa-tients are of the virulent variety. These two cases are the first to be reported in 1946 in which the organism cultured from the nose and throat of both patients were shown to be of the virulent type when injected into guinea pigs. Salt Lake, Sevier, and Utah counties each reported one case of pulmonary tuberculosis. One nonresident case of this disease was also reported during the week. Utah county also reported one ca.se of undulant fever. Beaver county and Ogden city each reported one case of malaria ma-laria fever. In both instances, the infection was contracted in tho Pacific area. HEALTH NEWS For the week ending April 19, local health officers and physicians physic-ians reported a total of 845 cases of communicable disease as compared com-pared with 1,017 for the previous prev-ious week. For the first time in several weeks the number of cases of j measles showed a slight decline ; 465 cases were reported for j the week as compared with 544 for the previous week-It week-It is encouraging to note that no cases of diphtheria, poliomyelitis, poliomye-litis, smallpox, nor typhoid fever were reported for the week. Salt Lake City and Ogden City each reported one case of tuberculosis. tuber-culosis. In addition to these, 2 cases of nonresident tuberculosis were reported. One nonresident case of tularemia tula-remia was reported. According to the attending physician, the infection was apparently contracted con-tracted through the handling of infected deer meat. One case of rheumatic fever was reported from Provo, bringing bring-ing the total cases of this disease for the year to 28. The totals for the week were as follows: chickenpox, 94; influenza, in-fluenza, 1; measles, 465; German measles, 61; mumps, 77; pneumonia, pneu-monia, 4; scarlet fever, 28; tuberculosis, tu-berculosis, 4; tularemia, 1; whooping whoop-ing cough, 39; gonorrhea (resident), (resi-dent), 20; gonorrhea (nonresident) 25; syphilis, (resident) 16; syphilis syph-ilis (nonresident), 8; rheumatic I fever, 1, and infectious hepati-j hepati-j tis, 1. j For the week ending April 26, ! a total of 797 cases of communi- cable diseases was reported to |