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Show HEALTH NEWS Five hundred and thirty one cases of notifiable diseases were reported to the state department of health by physicians and local health officers for the week ending end-ing February 20. For the previous pre-vious week this year, 382 cases were reported and 282 for the corresponding week last year. Outstanding in this report are the 36 resident cases of cancer (all malignant tumors) reported during the current week, making this the peak cancer week since the disease was first made reportable re-portable in December, 1946. Including In-cluding the cases this week, there have been 42 cases reported since the first of the year. Last year (1947), 553 cases of cancer were reported. We do not believe that the above listing represents 100 per cent reporting of cancer cases by any means, but on the other hand, it is highly encouraging to note the marked improvement during the past few weeks. The fallowing is a list of all reportable diseases for the week: chickenpox, 136; influenza, 80; measles, 35; German . measles, 5; mumps, 127; pneumonia, 13; scarlet scar-let fever, 22; tuberculosis, 5; un-dulant un-dulant fever, 2; whooping cough, 53; gonorrhea, 8; syphilis, 11; rheumatic fever, 3; and cancer, (resident), 36, (nonresident), 6. |