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Show HEALTH NEWS For the week ending July 19, local health officers reported a total of 261 resident and non-re.ideot non-re.ideot cases of communicable diseases as compared with 146 cases for the previous week, and 28(3 cases for the corresponding week last year. It is interesting to note that there were no cases of the following follow-ing communicable diseases re ported for the week; diphtheria, i infantile paralysis, meningitis Rocky Mountain spotted fever i and typhoid fever. Four cases of pulmonary tu berculosLs were reported; 1 from Carbon county; 2 from Salt Lake City and 1 from Summit county One case of tularemia was re-Ported re-Ported from Millard county. The infection was probably transmitted transmit-ted by means of fly bites. There were four resident cases and one nonresident case of un-'dulant un-'dulant fever reported. In all five cases the probable source of infection in-fection was raw milk supplied by home-owned cows. . There were four cases of malaria ma-laria fever reported all of which were contracted outside the Continental Con-tinental United States. The totals for the week are: chickenpox, 38; measles, 50; mea-Isles mea-Isles (German), fi; mumps, 45; pneumonia, 8; scarlet fever, 11; tuberculosis, 4; tularemia, I; un-dulant un-dulant fever, 5; whooping cough, 16; gonorrhea (resident), 17; gonorrhea (nonresident), 20; syphilis sy-philis (resident), 24; syphilis (nonresident), 9; dysentery (unclassified), (un-classified), 1; malaria fever, 4, and lymphogranuloma venereum, I 2 O |