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Show HEALTH NEWS According to the report of the state department of health, a total of 114 new cases of communicable com-municable diseases were reported report-ed for the week ending August 4 as compared with 140 cases for the previous week and 156 cases for the corresponding week last year. Measles, mumps and whooping whoop-ing cough continued to lead the state's list of new cases of disease. dis-ease. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: chicken pox, 11; diphtheria, 3; poliomyelitis, poliomye-litis, 2; measles, 30; German measles, 1; mumps, 28; pneumonia, pneu-monia, 2; rheumatic fever, 1; Rocky Mt. spotted fever, 1; scarlet scar-let fever, 2; syphilis, 3; tuberculosis tuber-culosis (pul.), 2; whooping cough 24; cancer, 4; dysentery (amoebic), (amoe-bic), 1; parathion poisoning, 1; silicosis, 1. |