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Show 1 Public Health Column j A total or 850 oaisiss of com-,muniaaible com-,muniaaible disease was reported to ilhe Divi-ion of Epidemiology, (Stats- Departmenit otf Healthi for rtoe weak ending March 6. This 1 is 54 cases imore .thian 'were reported re-ported for the previous tweak and 385 cases more than were reported for the corresponding period one ylrar ago. Mumps iled the list of communicable com-municable diiseases 'with a total of 445 icases this is 101 cases tmor;' ;ihan were reported last we&k and 353 cases more than A'eire reported for the same period per-iod one year 'ago. IA decrease In the number oif caLs ai scarlet tfever is mated' a total of 23 oases 'being reiport-ed reiport-ed as comlpartd with 43 case- ..or .he previous wieik. For Jhe corresponding period one year j ago only 5 oases iwiere reported!. One case of trachoma was reported re-ported from Washington Coun-ity Coun-ity ani or.e das: of rheumatic fever fe-ver 'Aab repoaited from Ogden Citj-. Other diseases reported are as fellows: chidkieripox 127, influenza in-fluenza 5, measles 93, German m-asles 112, mumps 445, pneumonia pneu-monia 6, ju'berculosis 1, whooping whoop-ing cpuigh 23, gonorrhea 6, and aypniiia 7. Brig'ham and Cedar City and ; tlhe (following counties rs'ported no diseases for the week: Cache, Daggett, Emery, Gnand, Iron, Juiio, Morgan, Rich', San Juan, and 'Uintah. |