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Show Public Health Column One hundred and two cases of maimps were reported to the Utah State Board of Health during the week ending June 16, according to Dr. J. L. Jones, State Health Comm-ssioner. Comm-ssioner. this compares with 149 cases last week and 82 cases during the corresponding week last year. iThere were 78 new cases of measles 55 of whooping cough, 32 of chicken-pox, chicken-pox, 12 of scarlet fever and 4 of pneumonia. These compare with 127 cases of measles last week and 262 during the corresponding week last year; 68 cases of whooping cough last week and 120 last year; 67 cses of chicken; ox last week, compared with 70 last year; 14 cases of scarlet 'ever last and 14 during the same period last year. Three cases of pneumonia last week, however, were compared with 7 cases during the corresponding week last yearr, and case of tuberculosis compared with 11 cases last year. A decrease is noted, not-ed, therefore, in every instance except mumps, both, from last week ami from the corresponding week last year. An interesting feature of the report is that there are only 3 cases of tularemia tul-aremia this week, as against 1 last week and 8 during the same week last year. Another intresting feature of the report is that there were no cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever or idlpht-ieria, where as there were4 cases of each last year and one case of each last 'Keek. "Vacation time," Dr. Jones says, ' is the seas:n of the year when we must be especially careful about the vector -iborne diseases, tularemia and Rocky Mountain spotted fever being uhe two most common in this locality." |