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Show HEALTH REPORT 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. |