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Show HEALTH NEWS Physicians and local health officers of-ficers reported a total of 94 resident resi-dent cases of communicable diseases dis-eases to the state department of health for the week ending Aug. 22. This number compares very favorably with the 118 cases reported re-ported for the same week last year and the 97 cases reported for the previous week this vear. The following is a list of all communicable diseases reported during the week: chickenpox, 13;. influenza, 1; measles, 7; German measles, 2; mumps, 14; pneumonia, pneu-monia, 3; scarlet fever, 9; tuberculosis, tuber-culosis, (resident), 4, (nonresident), (nonresi-dent), 1; tularemia, 3; undulant fever, 5; whooping cough, 19; gonorrhea, 2; syphilis, 10; and ringworm of the scalp, 2. |