Show health department report for week communicable disease reports fron local health officers to the utah state department of health for the week ending march 2 showed a slight increase in the number of cases of communicable muni cable disease over the previous week a total of resident cases and 29 nonresident cases for the previous week the number of cases of measles a decided increase a total of cases was reported as compared with 46 for the previous week mumps and scarlet fever both showed a slight decrease from the previous week two cases of pulmonary tuberculosis were reported from salt lake county cache county rep reported arted one case ol 01 undulant fever fevie ralle r alle ahe an abdu adult ailt male and according to the attending physician the source of the infection was raw milk from an infected cow A fatal case of epidemic meningitis I 1 in n an infant was reported from summit mit county one nonresident case of this disease was also reported utah county reported five cases bases of rheumatic fever and one case of this disease was reported from cache county gwo nonresident cases were reported six cases of epidemic diarrhea of the newborn were reported from salt lake county the totals for the week were as follows chickenpox Chicken pox influenza 1 measles german measles 12 meningitis epidemic 2 mumps 41 pneumonia 8 scarlet fever 38 33 pill pulmonary tuberculosis 2 undulant fever 1 whooping cough 17 gonorrhea resident 9 gonorrhea nonresident 11 resident 12 syphilis nonresident 7 malaria fever nonresident 4 rheumatic fever 8 epidemic diarrhea of the newborn 6 |