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Show Sanpete Goes Into Second Week With No Contagions Disease Although there were no communicable com-municable discuses reported In Sanpete last week, physicians and local health ofticers reported re-ported a total of 2-' resident cases of notifiable diseases to te State Department of health for the week ending August 20. This total includes 122 cases, mostly measles, from delayed reports of the Murray City Health Officer. Last week, 10-1 cases were reported and l3 for the corresponding week last year. Three cases of diphtheria were reported as compared with fou, cases last week. Since the first of the year, 10G cases of diphtheria diph-theria have been recorded. Kour cases of tularemia were reported for the week. Two of these cases were from the North , Point District on the east side of Great Salt Lake. It is thought that both cases were caus.d by deer fly bites. So far this year, there have been twenty cases l 111 the State. The average for the five year period, to ' Ul la, has been do cases per y ear. A large majority of tin- tularemia tula-remia cases in I'la'h result iither from handling inlecled i !!.: s or from deer fly bites. Many-cases Many-cases of tularemia coiud be pie. veined by not handling wild rabbits ul all, but rubbi r j; loves should be worn by those wlio insist on handling ihem. Deer flies should be ;ivniiiiii as far as possible and particularly particu-larly in ureas where they are known to 1h- inlected. People who are obliged to work in areas where infected fiivs are present should be well covered with clothing. Further protection protec-tion could be obtained by wealing weal-ing of gloves and some type ol mesh head set. The following is a list of all diseases reported for the we. k: chickenpox, 25; dipthoria, 3, measles, 111; mumps, 10; pneumonia, pneu-monia, 1; scarlet fever, 3; tuberculosis, tu-berculosis, 4; tularemia, -I; whooping cough, 17; gonorrhea 1; syphilis, 2; and cancer, 5. |