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Show Public Health Loal health officers reported a total of 392 cases of communicable communi-cable diseases to the Utah State Board of Health for the week ending end-ing June 6. This is a slight increase in-crease over the number of cases reported for the previous week. The epidemic of German measles meas-les seems to be subsiding. Only 86 cases of this disease were reported re-ported as compared with 122 for the previous week. A total of 138 cases of chicken-pox chicken-pox was reported, most of these from Salt Lake City. Salt Lake County, and Ogden. LTintah County reported one case of typhoid fever. The probable proba-ble source of infection was given (Continued on page 51 HEALTH REPORT (Continued from page 1) by the attending physician as contaminated con-taminated water. Four cases of tularemia were reported as follows: ' Two from Uintah County and one each from Sanpete and Juab Counties Twi of the patients were reported by the attending physicians to have been infected by insect bites on the upper lip. One was bitten by a tick and the occupation of the fourth was reported as sheepshear-er sheepshear-er with no evidence of any external exter-nal lesion. The organism responsible respon-sible for tularemia is one of the few known organisms that ean penetrate the unbroken skin. The disease therefore can be acquired simply by handling an infected animal. A majority of the cases reported in Utah are the result of insect bites. Other diseases reported by the local health officers were as follows: fol-lows: influenza 5, measles 30, mumps 31, pneumonia 8, scarlet fever 6, tuberculosis 2, whooping cough 62, gonorrhea 11, and syphilis 7. Box Elder, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Grand, Morgan Rich, San Juan, Sevier, and Wasatch Counties Coun-ties reported "no diseases" for the week. |