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Show Utah Disease Report is Encouraging , A total of 432 cases of communicable com-municable diseases was reported by local health officers for the week ending December 12 to the State Department of Health as compared with 487 cases which were reported for the previous week and 8,582 cases one year ago. Of the 8,582 cases of communicable communica-ble disease reported last year 8,288 of them were cases of influenza in-fluenza It is encouraging to note that this week's bulletin lists only 10 cases of influenza. Chickenpox showed a decrease of 25 cases as compared with those reported one week ago the total being 220 cases as compared with 245 cases. It is interesting to note that many young adults who have previously escaped this disease dis-ease are now reported as having chickenpox. J |