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Show State Health Report Two hundred and ninety-seven new cases of communicable disease dis-ease were reported to the Utah State board of health during the week ending November 24, compared com-pared with 315 cases for the previous pre-vious week, according to Dr. William Wil-liam M. McKay, director of the division of communicable disease control. During the corresponding week in 1938, 473 cases of communicable com-municable disease were reported. This represents, then, a decrease of 18 cases from last week, and a decreae of 17G cases from the corresponding cor-responding week last year. One case of smallpox was reported re-ported from Salt Lake City. This is the first case of this disease reported re-ported ince June 30. Decreases were reported in the number of new cases of chicken-pox, chicken-pox, infantile paralysis, measles, german measles, mumps and scarlet scar-let fever; and inlreases occurred in the number of new cases of influenza, in-fluenza, pneumonia, ' whooping cough, syphilis and gonorrhea. The number of new cases of Pneumjonia increased from six during dur-ing the previous week to 13 during dur-ing the week just ended. "This is the time of year", Dr. McKay said, "when the number of new cases of pneumonia is expected to rise. It is the time of year, therefore, there-fore, when it is particularly important im-portant that common cold's be treated .promjytily. It is; recranr mended that the physician be called call-ed early in all cases, since effectiveness effec-tiveness in the treatment of pneumonia pneu-monia is increased tremendbusly through early medical diagnosis and treatment." M |