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Show HEALTH NEWS Local physicians and health officers have reported to the state department of health a total to-tal of 138 resident cases of communicable com-municable diseases for the week ending October 25, as compared with 93 cases for the corresponding correspond-ing week last year and 147 cases for the previous week this year. All five cases of poliomyelitis reported this week are late reports re-ports two of them having had ! their onset (date of first illness) I in September and the other three j during the first half of October, j According to the number of polio i cases reported up to the present time, the peak of this epidemic was reached during the week of ! September 20 when twenty-two : cases were reported. Since then to the present time, there has I been a marked downward trend ! in the number of cases reported each week. This is the first time in several sever-al weeks that no cases of malaria fever have been reported. The following is a list of all communicable diseases reported during the week: chickenpox, 50; polio, 5; measles, 1; German measles, mea-sles, 3; mumps, 38; pneumonia, 8; scarlet fever, 9; tuberculosis, 3; tularemia (nonresident), 1; whooping cough, 2; gonorrhea i lrpif)pntl 3" svnhilw (resident) i 15, (nonresident), 3; and merlin -I gitis (pneumoeoccie), I, o |