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Show Public Health A total of 531 cases of communicable com-municable diseases was reportec to the Utah State Board of Health Heal-th for the week-ending February 14. . This is an increase of 200 cases over the prefious week. One hundred and fourteen cases of influenza were reported as compared with 66 for the previous prev-ious week. Sixty-two of these cases were reported from C C C camps, one located at Huntsville and the other at Moab. The 30 cases reported from the Huntsville Hunts-ville Camp are boys who have recently arrived from Louisiana and were apparently exposed before be-fore leaving home. Two cases of diphtheria were reported from Salt Lake City. Thib makes a total of 10 cases reported from Salt Lake City and County since January 17, 1941. Of this group, .7 were children and three were adults. Only two cafes were reported for the corresponding cor-responding period one year ago. Oi:e case of infantile paralysis, a bo;, , age 11, was reported from Pleasant Grove. Whooping cough and scarlet fever both showed an increase cases over the previous week. Totals for diseases are as follows, fol-lows, chickenpox. 131: measles, 13; German measles, 23; mumps, 53; pneumonia, 9; scarlet fever, 13; tuberculosis, 6; whooping cough, 120; gonorrhea 11: syphilis, syphi-lis, 13; and septic sore throat, 3. |