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Show State Board oi Health Report Reports from local health officers offi-cers of cases oi communicable disease snow a total of only 109 cases for the week ending August Aug-ust 1, 1941. This is toe fewest number di cases reported for any week during the year 1941. The total for last week was 200 cases ana for the corresponding week last year 179 cases. Thirteen o. ime t.venty-nine counties in the State reported "no diseases". Ondy 29 cases of whooping cough were reported as compared compar-ed with 82 cases for the last week. Salt Lake City and Coalville each reported one case of typhoid ty-phoid fever. Coe case of tularemia was reported re-ported iro.n' the Veterans' Hospital; Hospi-tal; tne patient apparently contracted con-tracted the infection through tne oite ol an insect. U..,e case oi infantile paralysis i-as reported from Salt Lake Citiy; tne patie.-Jt is 2 Mi years of age. Other diseases reported were as follows: chidkenpox 21, measles meas-les 8, German measles 3, mumps 11, pneumonia 5, scarlet fever 3, tuberculosis 4, gonorrhea 10, and syphilis 20. |