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Show tal of 23 cases of thiT" been reported durinl5 two of the cases reX Seventeen cases p fever were reported for - one of the patienf , ! as a nonresident. Durt , 1 total of 168 cases of J? has been reported-- jtM 'the week and one nonresident i case as compared with 21 resident and 2 nonresident cases for the I previous week. This brings the , total for the week to 157 resi-; resi-; dent cases and 6 nonresident leases. The new cases for this week were distributed as fo -lows- Carbon county, 1; bait Lake City. 8; Summit, 1; Tooele, 1- Utah 3; Provo, 1; Weber, 1; and Ogden City, 5. A death from the disease was reported during the week, making a total of 14 fatalities during the present epidemic epi-demic One case each of tularemia was reported from Emery and Salt Lake City. Both patients are adults and, according to the attending at-tending physicians, one of the patients was infected from handling hand-ling a sick rabbit the source of the infection of the other patient has not been determined. A to- HEALTH NEWS For the week onding September Septem-ber 14, a total of 182 cases of communicable diseases was re-, ported to the Utah State Depart-' ment of Health by physicians and local health officers- 50 of these 1 patients are listed as nonresidents. nonresi-dents. For the previous week I ob cases were reported, 37 0f whom were nonresidents Twenty-one resident cases of PotomyeMsjvere reported for |