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Show Fewer Diseases Reported By State Outstanding features of the weekly communicable disease report re-port released Tuesday by the Utah State Board of Health were a case of infantile paralysis, occuring in Salt Lake City; two cases of typhoid ty-phoid fever, occurring in Davis county and Ogden; two cases of undulant fever, reported (from Price and Cedar City; and two cases of tularemia, occurring iri Cedar City and Salt Lake City. New cases of communicable disease reported to the board during dur-ing the week ending July 28 totaled total-ed 132, which is a decrease of 21 cases from the preceding week, and a drop cf 97 from the total reported during' the corresponding week in 1938. The greatest decrease from the preceding week was in the number num-ber of new cases of mumps, which showed a drop of 17 cases. Chickenpox followed, with a decrease de-crease of ten, and measles and scarlet fever, the only other diseases diseas-es to drop, showing decreases of six cases each. Vf |