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Show Health Report Reports to the Utah State Department De-partment of Health from local Health Officers for the week ending end-ing December 11, show a marked increase in the number of cases of communicable diseases as compared com-pared with previous week. For the corresponding week in 1941, only 432 cases were reporttd. Measles, chickenpox, and scar-led scar-led fever all showed an increase over the previous week. While a majority of the counties coun-ties reported cases of measles, the number reported from Uintah and Emery Counties would indicate indi-cate epidemic proportions. One case of diphtheria was reported re-ported from Salt Lake City. The physician who attended the two year old youngster reported that in spit of a tracheotomy, the patient succumed to the disease. The State Department of Health warns all parents against the danger of diphtheria. Children need not have the disease. They should be immunized as soon as they reach the age of 9 mnnths and immunization should be repeated re-peated again upon entering school One fatal case of infantile paralysis par-alysis wa3 reported from Davis County. The patient was boy, 14 years of age. Salt Lake County reported one case of epidemic meningitis the patient was 18 years of age. Other diseases reported were as follows: chickenpox 170, diphtheria diph-theria I, measles 658, German measles 7, mumps 69, pneumonia 10, scarlet fever 53, whooping cough 17, gonorrhea 20, syphilis 24, trachoma 1, and meningitis 2. |