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Show HEALTH NEWS For the week ending March 8, local health officers reported a total of 843 cases of communicable communic-able diseases as compared with 827 for the previous week. The number of cases of measles meas-les continues to show a slight increase in-crease throughout the state, a total of 545 cases of this disease was reported as compared with 512 for the previous week. Emery county and Ogden city each reported one case of epidemic epi-demic meningitis. According to the attending physicians the patients pa-tients were both children. Eight new cases of tuberculosis tubercu-losis were reported for the week, 2 of whom were listed as nonresidents. non-residents. One case of amoebic dysentery-was dysentery-was reported from Weber county. coun-ty. The patients contracted the infection while in the armed service. O |