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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly bulletin bulle-tin of the state department of health, a total of 908 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending March 20th as compared with 621 for the previous week and 459 for the corresponding week j last year. j German measles leads the list ; with a total of 334 new cases, j Measles came second with 227 1 and chicken pox was third with ; 125 cases. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: cancer, 3; chicken pox, 125; gonorrhea, 1; measles, 227; German measles, 334; mumps, 51; poliomyelitis, 1; rheumatic fever, 1; strep infections, infec-tions, 68; syphilis, 3; tuberculosis 3; influenza, 89; trachoma, 2. O |