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Show i HEALTH NEWS i j According' to the report of the ' state department of health, a total of 140 new cases ol communicable com-municable diseases were reported report-ed for the week ending July 28 as compared with 119 cases for the previous week and 69 cases for the corresponding week last year. Measles, mumps and chicken pox continued to lead the state's list of new cases of disease. The following is a list of all diseases for the Week: chicken pox, 22; gonorrhea, 3; measles, 50; German measles, 1; mumps, 24; pneumonia, 1; silicosis, 1; encephalitis (non-epid.), 1; syphilis, syph-ilis, 7; tuberculosis (pul.), 4; tularemia, tu-laremia, 1; brucellosis, 1; whooping whoop-ing cough, 15; cancer, 6; gastroenteritis, gastro-enteritis, 3. O |