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Show HEALTH NEWS Resident notifiable diseases dropped from 140 cases last week to 69 for the week ending July 29, according to reports received by the state department of health from physicians and local health officers. For the same week last year 140 cases were reported. The, following is a list of all diseases for the week: chicken pox, 8; gonorrhea, 6; poliomyelitis, poliomye-litis, 5; measles, 10; mumps, 5; pneumonia, 3; meningitis (epidemic), (epi-demic), 1; syphilis, 5; tuberculosis, tubercu-losis, 1; undulant fever, 2; whoop ing cough, 18; cancer, 4; other diseases, 1. |