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Show o Local health officers and physicians phy-sicians have reported to the state department of health a total of , 342 resident cases of communicable communic-able diseases for the week ending end-ing December 6, as compared with 4,542 cases for the same week last year and 233 cases for i the previous week this year. There was an increase of more i than one hundred cases of com-. municable diseases this week ov-1 i er last week and is due mainly i to an increase in the number of j j cases of chickenpox, mumps and i rheumatic fever. The influenza epidemic ac-' ac-' counts for the large number of i cases of communicable diseases ! reported for this same time last j year. |