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Show health, a total of 56 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending July 25th as compared with 114 for the previous week and 179 for the corresponding week last year. A considerable drop in the total , number of new cases of communicable diseases was noted not-ed this week. Measles leads the list with a total of 11 new cases. Mumps came second with 8 and chicken pox was third with 7 cases. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: brucellosis, brucello-sis, 2; cancer, 1; chicken pox, 7; infectious hepatitis, 3; gonorrhea, gonor-rhea, 1; measles, U; German measles, 2; mumps, 8; poliomyelitis, poliomye-litis, 6; strep infections, 6; syphilis, syph-ilis, 1; . tularemia, 1; whooping cough, 1; malaria, Q (contracted outside confl U.S.). o HEALTH NEWS ; According to the weekly bulletin bul-letin of the state department of |