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Show State Report Shows Drop In Communicable Diseases A decrease of 64 new cases of communicable disease was reported report-ed to the Utah State Board of Health officers during the wtek ending December 24, as compared with the former week, accordine to Dr. William M. McKay, Director of the Division of Communicable Disease Dis-ease Control. This is the first time since November 20 that the repo't shows a decrease In number num-ber of now cases under the former week. Decreases are reported for chlck-enpox, chlck-enpox, measles and whooping cough. Mumps show a considerable increase, however, but new cases of pneumonia and scarlet fever remain re-main about the same. Cases of chickenpox and scarlet fever are distributed rather generally gen-erally over the State, being reported report-ed by eleven counties in each instance. in-stance. Measles, on the other hand, is concentrated In Emery County, and the greatest number cf new cases of mumpa is reported report-ed from Uintah County. Two new cases of tuberculosis were reported last week, compared with only one case for the previ-cus previ-cus week. Nineteen naw cases of tuberculosis have been reported sirte the week ending October 22. In only two weeks during that time have no new cases been reported. The highest number reported in any one week is four, and cases have been reported during these ten weeks from five counties. The extent of communicable disease dis-ease reporting in Utah is growing e-ich week, says Dr. J. L. Jones, S'.ite Health Commissioner, and with inc-eased number of reports, the people of the Slate may expect ex-pect eaually increased efficiency In contrr.l measures aimed at th l?-z?A cf contagion. |