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Show State Health Report Shows Improvement Reports from the local health officers to the State Department of Health for the week ending July 3, shows the health pictures in the State of Utah to be considerably con-siderably improved over the previous pre-vious week. A total of 582 cases of communicable diseases was reported re-ported as compared with a total of 812 cases for the week ending July 26. ' The epidemic ofi measles continues contin-ues to subside, only 283 cases being be-ing reported )as compared with 473 for the previous week. One case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever was reported from Salt Lake City, the patient a housewife, and it is the opinion of the attending physican that the tick responsible for disease was brought into the home by the husband who had been camping camp-ing in a nearby canyon. i Weber County reported one case of undulant fever, the patient pat-ient is a farmer and it is pre.nim-ed pre.nim-ed that he oecame infected from ! drinking raw milk. A report of, the case has been made to the j ! State Department of Agricul-; iture who will invstigate the dairy herds in the community. Other diseases reported were as follows: chickennox 47. influenza 1. German measles 18, mumps 157 , pneumonia 8, scarlet fever 5, tub-: erculosis 2. whooping cough 31, gonorrhea 13, syphillis 12, and rheumatic fever 3. I |