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Show HEALTH REPORT Local health officers reported a total of 389 cases of communicable communi-cable diseases to the Division of Epidemiology, State Board of Health, for the week ending November Nov-ember 7. This is 86 cases more than were reported last week and 24 more than reported one year ago. More cases of chickenpox, influenza, in-fluenza, measles mumps, and whooping cough were reported than were reported for the previous pre-vious week. Three cases of infantile paralysis para-lysis were reported from Salt Lake City and County, making a total of 38 cases of this disease for 1941. This is ten cases fewer than reported for the corresponding correspond-ing period in 1940. An additional case of undulant fever was reported from Magna. According to the attending physician phy-sician the probable source of infection in-fection was "raw milk". An investigation in-vestigation is being made by the j Department of Agriculture in an effort to locate infected animals. One case of rheumatis fever was reported from Utah County. I Other diseases reported were as follows: Gcmian measles 34, pneumonia 5. scarlet fever 6. gonorrhea 2. syphilis 16. septic j soar throat 1. and coccidioidal meningitis 1. No cases of communicable disease di-sease were reported from the following cour.tus: Beaver. Pug-gott. Pug-gott. Duchesne. Emery. Grand. , Iron. Juab. Kane. Piute. San Ji nn Sevier and Wasatch. , |