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Show STATE REPORTS DISEASE TOTAL For the week ending September 21, state health officers reported a total of 125 cases of communicable diseases, 27 of the patients were listed as nonresidents. For the previous week 172 cases w.ere listed, list-ed, of whom 50 were nonresidents. nonresi-dents. A total of 22 cases of poliomyelitis poliomyel-itis was reported for the week, one of these , was a nonresident. This is the same number of cases as was reported for the previous week. Three of these cases became ill two weeks ago but the doctors failed to report them until the present time. A total of 178 resident resi-dent cases of poliomyelitis and 7 nonresident cases have been reported re-ported since January 1, of this year. For the corresponding period per-iod during the epidemic of 1943, a total of 253 cases were reported. |