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Show I is influenza immunization, which is a relatively simple and almost painless procedure. Influenza immunization im-munization proved to be very successful among the personnel of the arjyed services and should be equally effective among the general population. Your family physician us the person best qualified qua-lified to adviie you whether or not you should be immunized against influenza at this time The following is a list of all communicable diseases reported during the week: chickenpox, 132; influenza, 81; measles, 3; German measles, 6; mumps, 125; pneumonia, 4; scarlet fever, 20; tuberculosis, I; undulant fever, 2; whooping cough, 5; gonorrhea, 4; syphilis, 1; malaria fever, 1; meningitis (non -epidemic), 2, and rheumatic fever, 1. HEALTH NEWS Physicians and local health of-I of-I ficers reported a total of 388 re-' re-' sident cases of communicable diseases to the state department of health for the week ending ; March 21, as compared with 427 j cases for the previous week and 1,026 cases for the same week i last year. Influenza cases increased from 1 67 cases for the previous week to 81 cases for this week. That makes a total of 321 cases of influenza in-fluenza reported since the first of the year. It is very possible that the number of influenza cases in the state may increase from now on for a period of time. The best and only specific preventive measure |