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Show reported from cacne.cuuuV. makes the ninth case oi aiphth-e, aiphth-e, ia from the first of the year to the present time. Diphtheria is primarily a childhood disease and is largely preventable by means of diphtheria immunization immuniza-tion of the younger age groups. total of five cases of polio-,m. polio-,m. litis was reported during the week and two of the five are nonresident cases from neighbor-in!' neighbor-in!' states. The three resident cases were reported from Salt Lake City. Moroni, and Sunny-side Sunny-side To date we have had a total to-tal of 117 resident poliomyelitis cases as compared with 218 cases for the same period of time last year. One ease of tularemia was reported re-ported from Rich county and that accounts for the twentieth ease since the Inst of the year. The oucvuufl in me ca I was contracted th n rmm bites. Tulare,,, '-Uh quently contra, ri "thrmoB handling of j, 9 wild fowl. 1 '"hV freitH the Contin 1 communicabli !'n Bl during the v , Wtheri ,, ! 1 alysis, (tesid nt), 3 (rum mm 2; influenza ... M demic, 1; mump :ii! wiH tuberculosis, ' 1 "U'bI whooping coui 6; H syphilis (residi 1 t) 5. (MM (U iuJ. 2; and malaria 'fuvH HEALTH NEWS There was a total of U7 resident resi-dent communicable disease cases cas-es reported to the state department depart-ment of health bv physicians and local health officers for the week ending October 18. 1046 Last week there were 118 cases and for the same week last year, 107 cases. The slight increase in communicable com-municable disease cases this week over last week is due largely large-ly to an increase in chickenpox cases from 24 last week to 4(i eases this week. One case of diphtheria was |