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Show Report Shows Disease On Increase In Utah Reports from local health officers of-ficers for the week ending October Oc-tober 24, show an increase of 100 cas:s of communicable diseases dis-eases as compared with the previous week. This increase is accounted for in the mumber of cases of chickenpox; most of the cases occurring in Rich county and Salt Lake City and county. The case of typhoid fever was reported from Salt Lake City, making a total of 27 cases which have been reported since the first of year 1941. for the entire State. The source of the infection infec-tion is being investigated but has not yet been determined. According to records in the Division Di-vision of Epidemiology most of the cases of typhoid fever in Utah are the result of contact with carriers. Carriers are individuals who have had typhoid fever and continue to harbor the organisms in thei gastro-intestinal tracts. Some of these individuals giVe a history of having had typhoid fever more than 20 years ago. Ten cases of whooping cough were reported for the week as compared with 18 cases for the previous week. Other communicable diseases reported re-ported were as follows: influenza 1 measles 6, German measles 10, mumps 35, pneumonia 3, scarlet fever 8, septic sore throat 1, gonorrhea 7, syphilis 7, and gonorrhea go-norrhea opthalmia 1. |