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Show Health News A total of 1089 cases of communicable com-municable diseases was reported to the State Department of Health from all sections of the state for the week ending April 10. This is 63 cases more than were reported for the previous week and 638 cases more than were reported for the corresponding correspond-ing week one year ago. Three hundred and thirty-nine cases of mumps were reported for the week. This is, however, 65 cases fewer than were reported report-ed for the previous week. Measles is second in number, with a total of 286 cases. For the corresponding period one year ago only 21 cases of this disease were reported. German measles is third in number, with a total of 280 cases. Thi3 is 81 cases more than were reported for the previous week. Twenty-two cases of scarlet fever fe-ver were reported as compared with 7 cases for the corresponding correspond-ing period one year ago. Other diseases reported were as follows: chickenpox 64, Influenza Influ-enza 26, pneumonia 13, tuberculosis tubercu-losis 5, whooping cough 32, gonorrhea gon-orrhea 5, syphilis 14, other tuberculosis tuber-culosis 1, septic sore throat 1, and one case of silicosis. |