Show communicable diseases increase during week for the week ending january 12 a total of cases of communicable diseases was reported to the utah state department of health as compared with cases the previous week chickenpox Chicken pox is still at the top of th list with a total of cases the number b of cas cases e s 0 of f m measles si es shows a slight eau shows increase a and n d t the h e number m be of cases of mumps increased from 96 for the he previous week to it is encouraging to note tha no cases of diphtheria poliomyelitis smallpox nor typhoid fever were reported one case of epidemic meningitis was reported from salt lake courty according to the attending physician the patient is an infant this Is th he first case of this disease to be reported in the state this year during 1344 1044 there were approximately 40 cases of the disease reported with a number of fatalities millard tooele thoele and utah counties each reported one case of tuberculosis the totals for the week were as follows chickenpox Chicken pox influenza 40 measles 21 german measles 6 epidemic meningitis 1 mumps pneumonia 14 scarlet fever 67 septic ep sore throat 3 tuberculosis 3 whooping cough 5 gonorrhea resident 24 gonorrhea nonresident 23 syphilis resident 16 ills nonresident 2 and rheumatic fejer fe fc jer er 1 |