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Show Public Health Column Two hundred and thirty five new -avs of corm:unicable disease were reported to the Utah State Board of Health during the week ending June 23. acceding' to Dr. J. L. Jones State Healt.i Commissioner. This is a desease of 57 cases from the ; revious week and 287 from the cor-resoonding cor-resoonding week last year, there being 522 cases reported in the sa.me week last year. Th Teatest number of new1 cases of communicable disease was 73 new a-s cf .meosles. There were 67 cases of whooping cough and 30 cases of chikenp:x . Each one of fese is a smaller number than the mn fcc-r rcrrted either last week or tho coiTospMidinj wool: List year. It is r.otr.blo that there was reported re-ported one case of septic sore throat R-hereas none wios reported last week nor in the corresponding week last year. There were no cases of Rocky mountain spotted fever reported last week, but three cases were reported during the previous week. Tiere was one case of tularemia reported last week and one for he rrevious week, but there were three reported in the corresponding week last year. Pneumonia is down frDm last year according to te statement by Dr. Jones. There mere only three cases reported last week, compared -with the corres |