Three of those deaths, she said, were reported to state health officials late last week.

He said state health officials should have refused any instructions to help.

It was an idea that state health officials had, in effect, already rejected.

They will present the results of the new survey in a meeting with Federal and state health officials tomorrow.

But the effort was apparently not enough for state health officials.

"Both we and state health officials recommended that he not practice."

"I'll have to talk to state health officials before I make up my mind," he said.

Then one day state health officials showed up and declared the house a hazardous site.

Other cases of illness are under investigation by state public health officials.

But state health officials said they could not immediately confirm the disease.