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Show Public Health Report Given By Dr. William McKay Local health officers in Utah reported re-ported 353 new cases of communicable communi-cable disease to the Utah Satate Board of Health during the week ending December 10, according to the weekly communicable disease report released today by Dr. William Wil-liam M. McKay, director of the division of communicable disease control. This is an increase of eighty-eight cases over last week. The increase is due largely to 135 new cases of chickenpox, compared compar-ed with 106 last week; sixty-one cases of measles, compared with forty cases last week; and sixty-eight sixty-eight cases of mumps, compared with thirty-four during the week ending December 3. Cases of scarlet scar-let fever, on the other hand, decreased de-creased from sixty-four the previous pre-vious week to fifty-two for the week just ended. Chickenpox and scarlet fever are the most widely distributed, being reported from thirteen and twelve counties respectively. Measles, on the other hand, is most centralized, fifty-eight of the sixty-one cases reported from Emery and Carbon counties. No reports were received from Daggett, San Juan and Wayne counties, and only incomplete reports re-ports were received from twelve counties. Local health officers can aid the State Board of Health very materially ma-terially in its fight against the spread of communicable diseases, says Dr. J. L. Jones, state health commissioner, if they take more seriously their job of reporting regularly re-gularly new cases to the Division of communicable disease control. I |