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Show PUBLIC HEALTH COLUMN There were 102 cases of com-nr com-nr nica'oie reported to the Utah State Board of Health for the week ending October 11. This is 32 caies more than were reported la' week and 81 cases fewer than w re reported for the corresponding correspond-ing week in 1939. Two cases of diptheria were retorted from Spanish Fork which makes a total of 21 cases of this disease being reported so far this year. Three cases of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) were report-ed. report-ed. This is encouraging when com- pared with 10 'cases which were reported in 1939 for the corresponding corres-ponding week. So far this year a total of 38 cases has been reported re-ported from various sections of the State. Thirteen cases of pneumonia were reported. Other communicable diseases reported are as follows; Chicken-pox Chicken-pox 27, influenza 2, measles 3, mumps 4, scarlet fever 3, tuberculosis tubercu-losis 2, whooping cotfgh 8, .gonorrhea .gon-orrhea 3, and syphilis 27. No cases of typhoid fever nor smallpox were reported. Eighteen of the 29 counties in State reported "no disease." |