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Show FEWER DISEASES LISTED IN WEEKLY REPORT State health officers and physicians physi-cians reported a total of 338 resident resi-dent cases of notifiable diseases for the week ending January 9, ' 1918. Two hundred and twenty-four twenty-four cases were reported for the previous week this year, and 435 for the same week last year. Chickenpox heads the list of all the communicable diseases for the week there were 123 cases and for wek there were 123 cases and for the same week last year, 245 cases. Chickenpox is a highly communicable com-municable disease spreading rapidly rapid-ly from one person to another, but fortunately is one of the mildest of the communicable diseases and ! ordinarily has few, if any, compli- j cations. This disease is most communicable com-municable during the early stage of the infection. The infectivity drops off quite rapidly after the appearance of the first vesicles and most cases become noninfectious noninfec-tious in about six days after the vesicles first appear. The State Department of Health communicable communica-ble disease regulations of course require isolation of all cases of chickenpox, but do not require the institution of quarantine measures for contacts. , |