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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly bulletin bul-letin of the state department of health, a total of 703 new cases of communicable diseases were reported in the state for week ending March 23. I . Influenza led the list with a j total of 247 new cases. Mumps ! came second with 204 and chick- 1 en pox was third with 150. The following is a list of all diseases reported in the state for the week: cancer, 3; chicken pox, 150; influenza, 247; measles, 17; German measles, 11; mumps, 204; strep infections, 33; tuberculosis, tuber-culosis, 8; whooping cough, 17; gonorrhea, 6; syphilis, 6; infectious infec-tious hepatitis, 1. o |
