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Show HEALTH . NEWS According to the weekly bulletin bul-letin of the state department of health, a total of 413 new cases of communicable diseases were reported in the state for the week .ending February 24. I Mumps led the list with a to-' to-' tal of 160 new cases. Strep in-' in-' f ections came second with 95 and chicken pox was third with 81. The following is a list of all diseases reported in the state for the week: cancer, 7; chicken pox, 81; influenza, 10; measles, 30; German measles, 8; mumps, 160; strep infections, 95; tularemia, 1; whooping cough, 8; syphilis, 2; infectious hepatitis, 4; gastroenteritis, gastro-enteritis, 4; infectious mononucleosis, mononu-cleosis, 3. |