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Show State Notes Increase In Some Diseases One hundred and eighty-nine new cases of communicable disease were reported to the Utah State Board of Health during the week ending July 14, according to Dr. William M. McKay, acting state health commissioner. Increases were noted in the number num-ber of new cases of whooping cough, chickenpox, pneumonia and tuberculosis.' All others decreased. This week's total of new cases is smaller than last week's (202), and considerably smaller than the total for the corresponding week last year, which was 351. There were reported 76 cases of whooping cough, 39 cases of mumps, 28 cases of chickenpox, 24 cases of measles, 5 cases each of pneumonia and tuberculosis, 4 cases of scarlet fever, 3 cases of German measles, and one each of diphtheria, infantile paralysis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhoid ty-phoid fever and malaria.. ivr |