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Show HEALTH NEWS Physicians and local health officers reported to the state department de-partment of health 135 cases of communicable diseases for the week ending August 23, 1946. There were 171 cases for the same week last year and 112 cases for the previous week this year. Eight cases of poliomyelitis were reported this week which compares favorably with the thirteen cases reported for the same week last year. The polio patients ranged in age from 14 months to 9 years. Since the first of the year, 46 cases of polio have been reported as compared with the 85 cases for the same period last year. The following communicable diseases were reported, two cases of diphtheria from Magna; one case of undulant fever from Salt Lake City, which probably resulted re-sulted from the consumption of raw milk; a case of tularemia from Tooele county, the infection was probably transmitted through deer flv bites: and three easps of malaria, all of which contracted contract-ed their infections outside the continental limits of the United States. Totals for the week are: chick-enpox, chick-enpox, 32; diphtheria, 2; polio, 8; measles, 3; measles (German) ,. 3; mumps, 20; pneumonia, 9; scarlet scar-let fever, 11; tuberculosis, 2; tu-j tu-j laremia, 1; undulant fever, 1; I whooping cough, 8; gonorrhea j (resident), 14; gonorrhea (non- resident), 9; syphilis (resident), 8; syphilis (non-resident), 7; ma-laria, ma-laria, 3; and dysentery (shigel-1 (shigel-1 la), 1. |