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Show dicates that 6 of the 9 cases had a common source of infection. All 6 of the patients had slept and eaten at the same camp in a neighboring state. Food supplie-and supplie-and water supplies, and the pos sibility of their contamination through a typhoid , fever carrier are being further investigated. The patient, living at Mantua, Box Elder County, is reported to have died of typhoid fever. A case of poliomyelitis (infantile (infan-tile paralysis) was reported from Salt Lake City, making a total of 5 cases reported for 1941 as compared with 17 cases for the corresponding period for 1940. The patient is 15 years of age. Three cases of tularemia were reported, on from Sanpete Coun ty and the other two from Uintah County. Whooping cough leads the list of communicable diseases with a total of 82 cases; syphilis was third with 20 cases. Public Health Local health officers reported a total of 200 cases of communicable communi-cable diseases to the State Department Depar-tment of Health for the week ending end-ing July 25. This is 47 cases fewer few-er than were reported for the previous week and 38 cases more than were reported for the corresponding cor-responding week one year ago. Nine cases af typhoid fever were reported as follows: T Elder 4, Cache 2, Salt Lake City 1, Salt Lake County 1, and Uintah Uin-tah 1. Since the first of the year, a total of 20 cases of typhoid fever has been reported for the same period one year ago only 7 cases were reported. The possible sources of the infetion are being investigated. Preliminary investigation, inves-tigation, made by Dr. Murland W. Fish, Deputy Health Officer with headquarters at Odgen City, in- |