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Show STATE HEALTH REPORT For week ending August 11, local health officers reported a total of 173 cases of communicable communi-cable diseases 15 of which were counted as non-residents. This is 41 cases fewer than were reported report-ed for the previous week. Two new cases of poliomyetitis were reported from Provo and Utah County. According to the at-tending at-tending physicians the patients ,re 2 and 13 years of age respectively. respec-tively. So far during 1944, a total "of 9 cases of poliomyetitis Has been reported as comrjared with I 28 for the corresponding period in 1943. Cache and Carbon counties each reported one case of epidem-meningitis. epidem-meningitis. Since January, of this year, 21 cases of this disease have been reported with 6 fatalities. fatali-ties. Carbon, Millard, and Utah counties each reported one case of tularemia. According to the attending physicians, one of the patients was infected through the handling of a sick rabbit and the other 2 were infected through the bite of ticks. Two cases of undulant fever were reported from Rich and San Pete counties. Nineteen new cases of gonorrhea gonor-rhea and 15 cases of syphilis were reported for the week. In addition to these, 6 cases of gonorrhea gon-orrhea and 2 cases of syphilis were reported among non-residents. Army hospitals reported 4 cases of malaria. The totals for the week were as follows: chickenpox, 10; poliomyelitis, polio-myelitis, 2; measles, 7: German measles 2, epidemic meningitis 2, mumps 23, pneumonia 2, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (non-res-ident) 1, scarlet fever 6, tuberculosis tuber-culosis 3, tularemia 3, undulant fever 2, whooping cough 62, gonorrhea gon-orrhea (resident) 19, non-resident 1 6, syphjlis (resident) 15, (non-resident) (non-resident) 2, maralia fever 4, and rheumatic fever 2. |