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Show I Health Department j Notes Disease Increase In State Physicians and local health officers of-ficers reported a total of 156 resident resi-dent cases of communicable diseases di-seases to the Stale Department of Health for the week ending July 11, 1947, as compared with 133 cases for the previous week and 137 cases for the corresponding correspond-ing week last year. One acute anterior poliomyelitis poliomyeli-tis case was reported in a five-year five-year old child from Salt Lake City This makes a total of five cases reported since the first of the year and this is the first case reported since March 7, 1947. All of the previous cases, except one, had the onset of their illness I in 1946 and as a result, were a' I carry-over from the previous year. I One case of typhoid fever was reported from Utah County, the I patient being an adult male. This is the first case of typhoid fever reported in the State of Utah since November 0, 1946. Seven cases of rheumatic fever were reported during the week three from Ogden, two from Box Elder County, and one each from Davis and Salt Lake counties. No communicable disease reports re-ports were received from Logan City and Daggett, Davis, and San Juan counties. Health officers from Beaver, Garfield, Grand, Juab, Kane, Piute, Rich, Summit, Tooele, Wasatch and " Wayne counties and Cedar and Richfield cities reported that there were no communicable diseases in their areas of jurisdiction during the past week. The following is a list of all communicable diseases reported during the week: chickenpox, 48; infantile paralysis, 1; measles, 5; mumps, 43; pneumonia, 9; scarlet scar-let fever, 2; tuberculosis, 1; tularemia, tu-laremia, 1; typhoid fever; undu-lant undu-lant fever, 1; whooping cough, 24; gonorrhea, (resident), 5; (non resident), 1; syphilis, (resident), 8; (nonresident), 8, and rheumatic fever, 7. |