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Show State Health Report HEALTH . NTCWS REPORT R,y i- A total of 2131 cases of communicable com-municable diseases was reported to the State Department of Health by the local officers for the week ending May 15, 1912 as compared with 2076 cases for the previous week and 521 cases for the corresponding week one year ago. Measles leads the list of communicable com-municable diseases with a total of 1269 which is 133 cases fewer than reported for the previous week. Only 63 castes of measles were reported for the corresponding correspond-ing week one year ago. The total amount of cases of mumps for the week was 440 as compared with 292 for the previous pre-vious week. Two cases of tularmia were reported re-ported from Duchesne County, both patients apperantly were infected in-fected from the bite of a tick. Other diseases reported were as follows: chickenpox 55, influenza 3, German measles 252, pneumonia pneumon-ia 10, scarlet fever 20, tuberculosis tuberculos-is 3, whooping cough 32, gonorrhea gonorr-hea 13, trachoma 1, and influenzal influen-zal meningitis 1. (Continued on page 5) scarlet fever 11, tuberculosis 1, ! whooping cough 21, gonorrhea , syphilis 21, trachoma 7, and chan-eroiid chan-eroiid 1. Logan City and the following counties reported no disease for the week : Daggett, Grand, Iron, Kane, Rich, San Juan.Tooele, and Wayne. . HEALTH REPORT A total of 2076 cases of com-unicable com-unicable diseases was reported to the State Board of Health by local lo-cal health officers for the week ending May 8. This is 342 fewer than were reported for the previous pre-vious week. Measles led the list with a total to-tal of 1402 cases fewer than were reported for the previous week. In areas of the State, this disease seems to be on the decline but in most sections the number of cases of measles is increasing. In as much as measles is one oof the most contagious diseases of children, it is quite probable that it will spread throughout other sections of the State now comparatively compar-atively free from disease. Physicians are 'reporting that many of the patients are quite ill, eespecially in the younger age groups. While there is no known preventative for' this disease which produces a lating immunity, immuni-ty, physicians aree urged too ' make use of convalescent garum or whole blood which will produce a temporary immunity and is especially es-pecially valuable in the age group undor 5 'years in which the fatality fatal-ity rate from measles is very ! high. : The number of cases of chicken-j chicken-j pox, German measles, mumps, pneeumonia, tuberculosis, and from thee number of cases re-! re-! ported during the previous week, whooping cough show a deeclinu j Three cases of tularemia were j reported from Uintah County and ; one from Utah County. The three I patients from Uintah County are sheepshearers by occupation and j were infected through tick bites. ' The Utah County case is a rancher ranch-er and received his infection from a jack rabbit. Seven cases of trachoma were reported from Shivwitz Indian Reservation. The number of cases as reported report-ed by local health officers is as follows: chickenpox 66, influenza j 5, measles 1402, German measles 224, mumps 292, pneumonia 15 |